[i18n] Re: International chars in emails?

Kristian Barek horde at ndn.no
Fri Mar 25 00:24:33 PST 2005


Quoting Kristian Barek <horde at ndn.no>:

> Well, you _can_, though the right thing to do would be to complain to
> Yahoo etc.
> Most (if not all) the broken mail we received were using CP-1252 (a Windows
> ISO-8859-1 extension, probably from Outlook), so we changed the default
> character set here as a quick fix:
>
> lib/Horde/MIME/Part.php:define('MIME_DEFAULT_CHARSET', 'cp1252');
>
> So far it seems to have solved the problem (until someone sends a broken mail
> with a different character set, I guess.. :)

Of course, this won't work if the mail explicitly sets the character set to
us-ascii. The mails we receive don't set the character set at all.

-- 
Kristian Barek
Norsk Distriktsnett AS

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