[imp] messages written in wrong character set

[Jan Schneider]

Quoting Michael M Slusarz <slusarz at bigworm.colorado.edu>:

> Quoting Frank Niedermann <fbn at gmx.net>:
>
> | Hi,
> |
> | if I write a mail from imp to imp this message is displayed
> | on top of the mail:
> |
> | This message was written in a character set other than your own.
> | If it is not displayed correctly, click here to open it in a new
> | window.
> |
> | What does this mean? It won't matter if I choose English (en_US)
> | or any other Language (de_DE for example) at login.
>
> The character set of the message does not match up with the character set
> of
> the page your browser is currently displaying.  For example, your page
> might be rendered to your browser in ithe 'iso-8859-1' character set but
> the text of the message is in the 'us-ascii' character set.  Since pages
> sent to the browser can not switch between character sets within the
> page,
> the message has to be opened in a brand new window that renders
> everything
> in the 'us-ascii' character set to work correctly.

us-ascii is not a good example as it can be displayed in any charset and
us-ascii written messages will never show the mentioned link.
But apart from that you are correct.

Jan.

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