[imp] UTF issue(cvs head).urgent

Michael M Slusarz slusarz at bigworm.colorado.edu
Wed Nov 26 14:52:05 PST 2003


Quoting Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org>:

| > 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.

Good idea.  As long as we aren't breaking the RFC :) (and making the user
have to proactively do something to alter the RFC behavior, which sounds
like what you are suggesting in this case).

michael

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Michael Slusarz [slusarz at bigworm.colorado.edu]
The University of Colorado at Boulder


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