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

[Michael M Slusarz]

Quoting Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org>:

> 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?

Just strict RFC compliance.  I would say make it a configuration option or
preference, but I'm not sure what that gets us.

michael

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Michael Slusarz [slusarz at curecanti.org]