Re: [Mutt] #3039: mutt-1.5.17: wrong character set for traditional PGP
#3039: mutt-1.5.17: wrong character set for traditional PGP
Comment (by Alain Bench):
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On Thursday, March 20, 2008 at 11:48:57 -0000, Matthias Andree wrote:
> Tamo's patch apparently hacks the outbound path as well
Yes, Mutt can then optionally use the $send_charset mechanism,
instead of forcing "us-ascii:utf-8".
> that is something I'd suggest not to do given the strong inclination
> towards UTF-8 in RFC2440.
Not so simple: With some recipient mailers and setups, the UTF-8
sent by Mutt is unreadable. While a well labelled Latin-1 would work OK.
And the contrary can happen in some other cases. Standard and practice
are fighting, and there is no clear winner. There is clearly a looser,
though: The impacted user.
Worse: Encrypted UTF-8 mails sent by Mutt have no charset label.
Properly labelling them "utf-8" would already improve a little bit the
chances to be readable.
Needless to say that there are no such ambiguities nor
unsatisfactory compromises with PGP/MIME. This one is well designed.
Bye! Alain.
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