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

[Jan Schneider]

Zitat von Iain Collins <iain.collins at uk.easynet.net>:

> (Gratitous snippage follows...)
>
> Jan Schneider [jan at horde.org] wrote:
> > Zitat von Lord Apollyon <implist at paypc.com> wrote:
> >> 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.
> >
> > 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 ?).
>
> Actually I saw it fine (in both the original and in your reply), so it
> must
> have arrived in some form in the first place.

*Now* I have it too, because *now* the correct charset was used. What
happened before when I only saw a question mark, was that IMP tried to
convert the sign from iso-8859-1 (the charset the original message was
written in) to utf-8. That failed of course, because the sign only exist in
iso-8859-15. It looks like that other clients simply ignore the charset
setting and guess that the sender may have used the € sign. A wild guess
IMHO.

Jan.

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