Re: international support for subjects
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 06:10:47PM +0200, Michael Mauch wrote:
> Andrei A. Voropaev wrote:
>
> > Finally I got UTF-8 for xterm working. Things are working very good. I
> > can read both german and russian in the same terminal window. I mean the
> > body of email. But I noticed that in the index the subjects are not
> > shown properly if they contain national characters. I guess that when
> > subject line is found the charset of the body is not applied to it for
> > UTF-8 conversion. Is it a feature or a bug?
>
> Probably a feature. The charset of the body might be different from the
> charset of the header, and it's possible that the body has many
> different charsets - so it can't be applied to the subject.
>
> If the subject doesn't declare its own charset with something like
> "=?a-charset-name?Q?", Mutt can't know the charset.
That's what I suspected. This is reasonable. Since standart says that
subject shall have its own specification of charset then this is the way
it should be. Guessing is Microsoft way of doing things and that is why
I'm using linux. (Though they now do lots of guessing in linux software
:)
Good news for me is that when I write subject in Russian then mutt
attaches charset name to the subject line :)
Bad news is - good bye good ole days when email could be read by just
viewing spool file :)
Andrei