[imp] UTF issue(cvs head).urgent

Jan Schneider jan at horde.org
Wed Nov 26 14:57:33 PST 2003


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

> 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).

Exactly. The default would still be ASCII (or ISO-8859-1, makes more sense).

Jan.

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