[imp] Problem with charsets (head)

[Michael M Slusarz]

Quoting "W. Tasin" <tasin at fhm.edu>:

> Jan Kuipers schrieb:
>
>> Citeren Michael M Slusarz <slusarz at bigworm.colorado.edu>:
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>>> Try what I just committed.
>>
>>
>> This works for me. Thanks!
>>
>> -- Jan Kuipers
>> Systeembeheer Lauwers College
>>
> But this doesn't work for me anymore.
> Because viewing a text/html attachment doesn't change the content and so
> UTF-8 chars are displayed in a ISO-8859-1 frame/window, yet.

As an update, this is being worked on.  Jan has dsecribed the problem as such:

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The real problem is actually deeper in the MIME code. See the FIXME comment
in MIME_Part::transferDecode(), this is too much magic.

The problem is, that the mime part (if it is a text/* type) already *is*
converted to the users charset, so it doesn't help to send the original
charset to the browser when viewing the part in a separate window. We end
up with UTF-8 text being sent along with an Big5 charset header, for
example.

The correct solution would be (and I already started this once, but never
finished it) to remove all NLS::getCharset() calls from the MIME framework.
The controller should define the target charset, not the model, to speak in
MVC words.
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I am currently in the process of doing what the last paragraph suggests.

michael

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