text vs html

[Fred Smith]

Hi all!

I'm seeing this strange thing which while no biggie, is a nuisance.

If I get an email with both text and html sections, according to
my /etc/mailcap it seems to be getting processed like this:

text/html; lynx -dump -vikeys -raw %s; copiousoutput; nametemplate=%s.html

So, when someone sends email from outlook that contains a smiley face,
it displays a "J" when viewing that mail. (apparently because outlook
encodes a font change to some other font where "J" is a smiley face.)

it seems to be following this recipe and decoding the html part even
though there is a perfectly readable text part, containing a :-).

does the order of statements in mailcap matter? should I change this:


text/html; lynx -dump -vikeys -raw %s; copiousoutput; nametemplate=%s.html
text/plain; copiousoutput

to this:

text/plain; copiousoutput
text/html; lynx -dump -vikeys -raw %s; copiousoutput; nametemplate=%s.html

Or is th is problem just because Outlook is broken and instead of
issuing a font change should just embed the proper Unicode character?

Thanks in advance!

Fred
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