[dev] iso-8859-1 as the default mime charset?

[Jan Schneider]

The rules are pretty clear: if no charset is specified in a mime part, we
MUST assume that the charset is us-ascii.

Unfortunately a lot of mail, especially from newsletter systems don't
specify the correct charset and send iso-8859-1 mime parts without the
charset parameter. Thus I suggest to be less strict and assume that a mime
part has the iso-8859-1 charset instead of the ascii charset if none is
specified. AFAICS this shouldn't break anything because ascii is part of
iso-8859-1 but it would catch a lot of other cases.

This would mostly help Western European users that use umlauts or diacritics
from the upper part of the iso-8859-1 charset in their written languages.

Does anyone object or see any reason *not* to do this?

Jan.

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