Re: emel's viewer chokes on CSS files

On Wed, 18 Jul 2012 07:57:16 +0200
Liviu Andronic <landronimirc <at> gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 5:39 AM,  <tpgww <at> onepost.net> wrote:
> > Liviu, same comment from me as from the other posters: can't see any problem.
> >
> > I can't think of any reason why a .css file would be treated any differently from any other text file.
> >
> I tried with alternative Gtk themes (Clearlooks, Xfce, etc.) and I get
> the same issue. So I'm not sure that this is necessarily related to
> theming issues.
> 
> 
> > Are you using an external text-encoding-converter?
> >
> No.
> 
> The troublesome part comes from the first ten lines or so of the file:
> 
> /* ▓▓ NIGHTSHIFT - eye care:                  ▓▓
>    ▓▓ A darkening style for all websites.     ▓▓
>    ▓▓ by vetinari - 2009                      ▓▓
>    ▓▓ --------------------------------------- ▓▓
>    ▓▓ last modified: 13.06.2012               ▓▓
>    ▓▓_________________________________________▓▓ */
> 
> 
> When I remove this in another text editor, the file displays fine in
> emel. Could the culprit be the '▓' character, whatever it is?

Well, apparently so, but there's no obvious reason why.

Other than UTF-8 encoding, the details of the content should be irrelevant, and if there's a problem with
the encoding, you would get an error message.

Here, the text also displays as expected in email client and editors. Is that so for you?

Regards
Tom