[18335] in Athena Bugs
ugly mime decoding
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bruce Chou-hsin Po)
Fri Sep 22 14:04:38 2000
Message-Id: <200009221804.OAA11104@department-of-alchemy.mit.edu>
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
cc: misc@MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 14:04:34 -0400
From: Bruce Chou-hsin Po <igan@MIT.EDU>
Some emails I receive end up with underscores between all the letters
when I open it with `show', making it extremely difficult to read.
That shouldn't be happening because when I do `show -noshowproc' I
don't get those annoying underscores.
Here's an excerpt of an email I received when viewed using `show':
>>
>> Mime-Version: 1.0
>> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="============_-1242638219==_ma====
>> ========"
>>
>> *_A_w_a_r_e_,_ _I_n_c*_._ _i_s_ _a_n_ _e_l_i_t_e_ _t_e_a_m_ _o_f_
>> _t_e_c_h_n_o_l_o_g_i_s_t_s_ _f_o_c_u_s_s_e_d_ _o_n_ _h_i_g_h_-_s_p_e_e_d_
I posed this question to OLC, and here is their response:
>the "showproc" you are disabling when you use show -noshowproc is
>"mhshow". mhshow has some mime capability built in, so it is trying to
>make the font underscored and doing a very poor job. I believe there is
>no easy way to make it not do this, so for those annoying mails, you
>should use -noshowproc or better might be
>
> show -nocheckmime
>
>which will just turn off the mime decoding. You might also want to
>report that underscore behavior as a bug by sending mail to bugs@mit.edu
>and the appropriate people will see it and tell you if it can be fixed
>somehow. I'm pretty sure no one would want to see a mail like that.
>
>If your question is answered, please type "done" at the olc prompt. If
>you need more help, just ask.
>
>Thanks for using OLC
>
>Tom Sylla
>Athena Consultant
