Re: UTF-8 issues (reposted from mutt-users)
Hello Carlos,
On Wednesday, December 10, 2003 at 4:23:43 PM -0200, Carlos Laviola wrote:
> I'm having some weird problems with messages that are sent without any
> kind of indication that the message is ISO-8859-1 encoded
The example is a non-MIME message body with unencoded raw 8 bits
headers. That case would be nicely solved by the $assumed_charset
feature of the JA-patch (or of the compat patch) from Takashi Takizawa,
by setting $assumed_charset=windows-1252 and $strict_mime=no.
> invoking edit-type (bound to ^E here) with its default "text/plain"
> argument causes what you saw change from the first [octals] to the
> second [correct accents] screen grab.
Doing "<edit-type>text/plain<enter>" you changed the status of the
body from non-MIME to MIME (with default US-Ascii). Now after, Mutt
converted US-Ascii to UTF-8 to redisplay body. This is normal so far,
but should perhaps have resulted in question marks replacing accents.
Summary: Debian Bug #222191 could be turned into a wishlist for
inclusion of the JA-patch. BTW the same for #176332, a different case
helped by another feature of same patch.
Bye! Alain.
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