[imp] Message-Display ignores MIME charset

[Chuck Hagenbuch]

Quoting Otto Stolz <Otto.Stolz@uni-konstanz.de>:

> Now, IMP (which we are currently testing) apparently does
> ignore the MIME charset label: for the display, IMP undoes
> the content-transfer-encoding, but it tells the browser
> that the text be in ISO 8859-1 encoding. So IMP effectively
> transfers bits rather than characters, cf. example below.
> This means also, that neither the Euro symbol (our currency
> from 2002-01-01 on) nor Sorbian (one of Germany's official
> languages) can be displayed, as ISO 8859-1 lacks the required
> characters.

The main problem is having the message in a charset different from the rest of 
the UI. If you use IMP in zh_TW, any messages you get in a traditional chinese 
charset will show up appropriately. All of this works much more consistently in 
IMP 3.0, btw.

Any suggestions on how to display charsets other than that of the rest of the 
UI would be welcome.

-chuck

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