[ale] ISO-8859-1 question

[Jerry Z. Yu]

Emails from my frineds in China has the following:

	Content-Type: text/plain; charset="GB2312"
	Content-type: text/plain; charset=gb2312

On Fri, 24 May 2002, Glenn C. Lasher Jr. wrote:

#
#
#Similarly, I have found myself receiving lots of email in Korean.  I was 
#able to cut most of it off by using this .procmailrc recipe:
#
#:0
#* ^Content-Type.*ks_c_5601-1987
#/home/glasher/mail/JUNK
#
#Now, this recipe above is, of course, for Korean content.  Look through 
#the headers of the Chinese emails you are getting, and locate the 
#Content-Type: header.  Find the code in there, and substitute it in the 
#place of "ks_c_5601-1987" above.
#
#If you want to be really agressive, you can, of course, point the output 
#to /dev/null :D
#
#
#On Thu, 23 May 2002, Jim Lynch wrote:
#
#> I'm trying to cut down on the amount of spam I'm getting before I ever
#> see it.  I seem to have gotten on a chinese list somehow and now I get a
#> whole bunch of what looks to be porn ads but with lots of chinese
#> characters.  I've filtered out most of them, but a few get through I
#> think because the subject line is somehow encoded.  The lines in
#> question look like:
#> 
#> Subject: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?
#> 
#> Followed by a bunch of nonsense.  Can anyone point me to a way to decode
#> the nonsense into ascii or whatever character set it might be?  
#> 
#> My filter counts the number of characters in the subject and from lines
#> that are greater than 0x7f.  If there are too many I ditch the message. 
#> The messages that come in with the ISO-8859 tag are somehow encoded so
#> there aren't any characters >0x7f.
#> 
#> Thanks,
#> Jim.
#> 
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Jerry Z. Yu					+1-404-487-8544 (O)
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