Re: [Mutt] #2956: Recipient address broken if containing Š character (UTF-8 code: 0xc5 0xA0)

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#2956: Recipient address broken if containing Š character (UTF-8 code: 0xc5 
0xA0)

Comment (by Vincent Lefevre):

 {{{
 On 2007-09-18 11:02:59 +0200, Rocco Rutte wrote:
 > On the other hand, the question is what to do when all charsets in
 > $send_charset fail and $charset does not match an officially assigned
 > charset name, like in your case.
 >
 > The options are 1) go ahead with a charset possibly not supported on
 > the receiving side or 2) go ahead with a possible broken encoding in
 > a valid charset.
 >
 > I'm somewhat tending to prefer 2).

 Me too. At least one can hope that some characters only won't be
 correctly displayed (instead of the whole header field). If the
 broken encoding can be detected by Mutt, then a replacement
 character should be used.
 }}}

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Ticket URL: <http://dev.mutt.org/trac/ticket/2956#comment:>