[KLUG Members] Attachments quirk

[Mark Jones]

My guess is that it has to do with the default language character sets
for Linux vs. windows.  When going from one system to the other the
accented character mapped to an unprintable one.  I agree that it should
have been more graceful. (maybe, attachment.doc instead?)  You should
see what happens when things come from Asiatic languages.

As to the last question.  Frenchman should learn to speak and write a
REAL language like English or German (without the umlauts, of
course).  ;)

Mark

On Wed, 2006-01-04 at 11:13 -0500, Eric Beversluis wrote:
> I just discovered a quirk, either in Evolution or in Open Office.
> 
> I attached a file (Résumé.doc) to email to myself which I opened in XP.
> The file was received by Outlook Express as something like
> attachment00003.dat.  Weird. If I saved it and renamed it
> (something.doc), it opened OK in Word.
> 
> Since the title had the accents (Résumé) I experiment by renaming it
> Resume.doc w/o the accents. Then it was received OK by Outlook Express.
> 
> Despite the re-naming work around, I don't think this kind of thing is
> good. One should be able to send .doc attachments from Linux without
> worrying about this kind of snafu. And, eg, what's a Frenchman to do? 
> 
> EB
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