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Re: 'default_charset' configuration variable



On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 10:39:36AM EDT, Ludolf Holzheid wrote:

> Background for the 'default_charset' patch:
> 
> Some of the mails I receive are encoded in 8-bit ISO-8859-1 without a 
> character set information. There are even 8-bit characters in the 
> header. I know, this violates the RFCs, but I do receive such mails. 
> As I run Mutt in an UTF-8 environment, these mails were not rendered 
> as expected (by the sender).

This, if activated from message-hooks depending on sender, can be
quite neat.  However, looking at the index view, there's no reliable
way to display all messages properly at the same time, even with this :-(

 - Dave

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