[imp] Message-Display ignores MIME charset

Jan Schneider jan@horde.org
Fri, 16 Nov 2001 12:31:02 +0100


Zitat von Otto Stolz <Otto.Stolz@uni-konstanz.de>:

> Two possibilities come to mind:
> 
> - Split the current message frame, imp/message.php3, in two frames, one
> for
>    the GUI info and the other one for the message proper. Specify the
> ap-
>    propriate encoding for each, i. e. the encoding from
> imp/config/lang.php3
>    for the GUI frame, and the MIME charset of the incoming message for
> the
>    message-proper frame.
> 
> - Use Unicode (UTF-8 encoding) throughout; provide the GUI in UTF-8
> encoding
>    and convert all incoming messages to UTF-8, according to their
> respective
>    MIME charset label.

Another possible (and probably the most quickly) solution would be this:
(message from earlier this year)

Zitat von Chuck Hagenbuch <chuck@horde.org>:

> Someone should add a feature to IMP that lets you view (in a new window,
> 
> obviously) any part of an email in a different charset - specifically,
> the 
> charset specified in the headers of that part, or of the message itself,
> if 
> that's different from the current charset.

In any case we will only implement this in the forthcoming IMP 3.x 
releases. This inclines that the frameset solution you mentioned will 
probably has no chance to be implemented as we dropped framesets in the new 
version.

Jan.

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