Re: UTF-8 issues (reposted from mutt-users)
On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 02:00:47PM +0100, Alain Bench wrote:
> 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.
Do you happen to know where I can get the patch? I cannot read
Japanese and this really interests me.
> > 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.
Cool, I get it, I think. I'm forcing MIME mode.
> 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.
I hope Artur agrees with you :-)
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Carlos Laviola <carlos@xxxxxxxxxxx>