[imp] UTF issue(cvs head).urgent

[Jan Schneider]

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

> Quoting David Chang <david at tmv.gov.tw>:
>
> | Is it possible to let IMP use the default language/charset setting in
> | NLS.php to display sort of mail ?
>
> No - messages that do not have the charset parameter can NOT default to a
> local language/charset setting.  It is absolutely plain in RFC 2046
> [4.1.2]
> that it must be this way:
>
>   The default character set, which must be assumed in the absence of a
>   charset parameter, is US-ASCII.
>
> Thus US-ASCII will always be used as the default charset if a MIME part
> does
> not say otherwise.

Though other mail clients allow the user to select another default charset
for incoming messages, and this is something that's still on my todo list.
It might break RFCs but it help interoperability with broken mail clients.

Jan.

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