[imp] Encoding when answering

[Michael M Slusarz]

Quoting Jānis <je at ktf.rtu.lv>:

> Citējot Michael M Slusarz <slusarz at horde.org>
> Tue, 18 Oct 2011 11:17:56 -0600:
>
>> Quoting azurIt <azurit at pobox.sk>:
>>
>>> It's hapenning on my installation and unicode chars are being  
>>> corrupted cos of this. When i'm answering to e-mail with UTF-8  
>>> charset, everything is fine, my e-mail has UTF-8 in headers. But  
>>> when i'm answering to e-mail with, for example, ISO-8859-1,  
>>> unicode chars are corrupted and charset ISO-8859-1 is set in  
>>> headers (i can see this on message in Sent folder).
>>>
>>> How can i set preferred outgoing charset ?
>>
>> You can't in this situation.  If a sender is sending you messages  
>> in ISO-8859-1, we can't assume they support UTF-8 so we can only  
>> return messages that use the ISO-8859-1 charset.  If there are  
>> unicode characters in there, you are out of luck.
>>
>> We have discussed removing outgoing charset composition selection  
>> completely and sending messages either in US-ASCII or UTF-8.  But  
>> this would be a major change and won't happen before 5.1.
>
> you can edit compose.php in a way that everything going out has  
> UTF-8 encoding (more on that you can find in the lists archives for  
> August/September or at bugs.horde.org).
>
> I know Michael will protest, but by such bad behaviuor I solved my  
> own problems (and it seems that does not make any problem with my  
> correspondents) as none protests about undecipherable e-mails anymore.

I am not protesting.  We just can't do this in the mainline code in a  
non-point release because it is such a huge change.

The issue, which you completely gloss over, is that some recipients  
won't be able to read the outgoing messages since they don't support  
UTF-8 (they should be able to view the ASCII characters fine, but all  
non-ASCII characters will be garbled.  This is no better than what  
happens in the current situation).  So it is debatable whether this is  
any better than the current situation.

michael

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