[imp] Re: Charset problems

[Daniel Eckl]

And there are people on this list telling me _I_ would get pissy 
sometimes...... They should rethink perhaps....

Well...
Back to the problem:
What you would need is that IMP has a fallback charset if none is given.
But how should IMP know which one?
If it assumes iso-8859-1 and the mail is sent iso-8859-7 (greek) or even utf-8 
you will have garbage again. So you cannot work around this bug in the 
sender's mail client. If you can think of a fool proof solution without 
getting the sender to use a bug free mail client, then feel free to send a 
patch or at least a very detailled description of how you think this should 
work.

Daniel

Am Samstag, 9. April 2005 02:07 schrieb Anakin SkyWalker:
> That's a really great solution for such problem. Thank
> you mr. Schneider, you really care about your users.
>
> Danke schön.
>
> --- Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org> wrote:
> > Zitat von Joaquim Machado <joaquim.machado at ine.pt>:
> > > Some mails displays the message/subject
> >
> > incorrectly, they get funny
> >
> > > characters, altought i can see them correctly in a
> >
> > "standard" mail
> >
> > > client (thunderbird or outlook).
> > >
> > > What I realised so far, is:
> > >
> > > If the mail has an header setting like:
> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
> > >
> > > Then the message is displayed correctly.
> > >
> > > But if it doesn't have that setting, then it
> >
> > replaces the characters
> >
> > > with "garbage".
> > >
> > >
> > > 1. Is this a bug?
> >
> > Yes, in the email client of the sender.
> >
> > Jan.
> >
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