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Re: Bug#267015: inline-signed messages always sent in utf-8 ($send_charset not honoured)



On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 02:30:23AM +0200, Adeodato Simó wrote:
>   given that, the discussion is whether that's a bug or not, and I guess
>   there will be strong reasons to support this behavior.

I'm not sure if it's a bug per se, but I can cite specific examples
where it's not desireable.  Here in Korea, most people use one of
several popular web mail sites.  Many people also use the Korean
version of Windows 98.  As shipped, this combination of software
simply can't display UTF-8 mails properly, even if you tell IE to
display the mail as UTF-8 explicitly (at least for some users,
probably hanmail.net users).

I haven't been able to identify why this is, as I don't have a Korean
Win98 machine, nor the required knowledge of Korean, needed for
testing.  Note that in such situations, ASCII characters disply fine,
whereas the utf-8 Korean characters are unreadable garbage.

I suspect the fault lies at least partially with both Win98 and the
web mailer software.

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