[imp] Message-Display ignores MIME charset

[Otto Stolz]

Chuck Hagenbuch wrote:

> Unicode should work, with browsers/OSes that support it. I haven't kept=


> up on php's character support; is there the support necessary for us to=


> convert everything into unicode?

UTF-8 has an important, and useful, feature: ASCII is a proper subset of 
UTF-8.
In other words, every character, PHP (or almost any other programming 
language)
interprets as syntactical denotation, is alike in both ASCII and UTF-8. 
Thus,
if PHP simply forwards the bytes it does not interpret, it should work 
with UTF-8.

I do know next to nothing about PHP, so somebody else please test this con-
jecture (or let's say: educated guess). As an example string you could use
in this test, I'll append the Russian line (this time correctly labelled as
UTF-8); its UTF-8 encoding contains an A0 byte which is not legal in
ISO 8859-1. As ISO 8859-1 is obviously handled by PHP, this is the only
possible trouble-spot to be tested.

Best wishes,
   Otto Stolz

--------- Russian Example -------
Я говорю Руский язык очен плохо.