[imp] [PATCH] Add the Euro to the special characters console.

Jan Schneider jan at horde.org
Tue Aug 5 02:33:14 PDT 2003


Zitat von Lord Apollyon <implist at paypc.com>:

> I was typing an email to a friend in the UK and was mentioning the €,
> and
> went to look for it in the "Others" section below £ and lo!  It was not
> to
> be found!  Horrors.
>
> Given the number of Europeans on the Horde/IMP team, I am pondering how
> this
> fell through the cracks.

Because (as you already stated below), you need the iso-8859-15 charset to
display the sign correctly. As you see in the citation above, you might
have been able to paste the character in your mail, but it didn't arrive
(note the ?).

> Well here's a patch from a silly American to add it to the "others" list.
>
> It seems to work in IE4+ and Mozilla Firebird.  "Normal" email clients on
> non-Wintendo platforms may have issues unless you set the charset to
> ISO-8859-15 instead of ISO-8859-1 (in the email header submitted through
> the
> MTA not the html).  One informal test to an admittedly lame email client
> [QuickMail for Macintosh] gave him the wrong symbol.

Jan.

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