[imp] Allowing multiple character sets

[Jan Schneider]

Zitat von Nate Carlson <natecars@real-time.com>:

> Got a minor issue with character sets.
> 
> When one of my clients sends me a message, his mail client (Notes) uses
> the following headers:
> 
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed
> 
> ..IE, they are using ISO-8859-15 instead of ISO-8859-1. The message is
> displayed as an attachment under IMP, instead of just displaying it on
> the
> screen.
> 
> Is there any easy way to get IMP to display both ISO-8859-1 and
> ISO-8859-15?
> 
> According to http://czyborra.com/charsets/iso8859.html, -15 is a new
> version of -1, so it really should be acceptable..

The problem is that the charset that is used to display the IMP pages is 
different from the one that's used in the message. I agree that sometimes 
is doesn't make much difference because a lot of charsets are quite 
similar. But unless we won't use Unicode for displaying the pages there 
will always be a chance that some characters in the message are not 
displayed correctly.

There was a long thread about this problem on this list earlier this month. 
Check the archive for details.

Jan.

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