[Tickets #8393] Re: charset problem in html file in attachment

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Ticket URL: http://bugs.horde.org/ticket/8393
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  Ticket             | 8393
  Updated By         | Michael Slusarz <slusarz at horde.org>
  Summary            | charset problem in html file in attachment
  Queue              | IMP
  Version            | 4.3.2
  Type               | Bug
  State              | Not A Bug
  Priority           | 1. Low
  Milestone          |
  Patch              |
  Owners             |
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Michael Slusarz <slusarz at horde.org> (2009-07-07 17:40) wrote:

> Hi, thanks for your quick answer. One part of the problem is that  
> the content-type of the part is wrong. It's setted with a call like  
> this :
>  $msg->setCharset(NLS::getCharset());
> So every html part gets an "UTF-8" encoding, which can be wrong.
> What would you say about reading and setting charset for an html attachment ?

There is no way to determine the charset of a file uploaded via RFC  
1867.  And there is no reliable way to auto-determine the charset of a  
text file.  Therefore, we fall back to the only information we are  
provided from the remote OS - the charset supported by the browser.