[imp] Message-Display ignores MIME charset

[Jan Schneider]

Zitat von Chuck Hagenbuch <chuck@horde.org>:

> 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.

I'm not sure but shouldn't at least unicode work? I tested with the message 
Otto sent to the list as it had a part with the charset utf-8. I switched 
my browser to use unicode and - voilá - the part was displayed (almost) 
correctly with greek, russian, chinese and german characters.

Jan.

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