[Tickets #4224] Incorrect handling of iso-8859-1 emails

Mon Aug 14 05:48:36 PDT 2006

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Ticket URL: http://bugs.horde.org/ticket/?id=4224
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 Ticket             | 4224
 Updated By         | cmouse at desteem.org
 Summary            | Incorrect handling of iso-8859-1 emails
 Queue              | IMP
 Version            | 4.1.1
 Type               | Bug
 State              | Feedback
 Priority           | 1. Low
 Owners             | 
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cmouse at desteem.org (2006-08-14 05:48) wrote:

> Can you please be more specific? I have no idea what you're talking
about.

When sending that emails, all the scandic letters, such as &auml; and
&ouml; show up in incorrect encoding. This causes the browser to display
them as garbage, instead of as letters which they were intended. 

This could be fixed by using iconv/recode to re-encode the email into
correct charset.