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Re: Saving changed mime types?



Hello Kyle,

Kyle Wheeler <kyle-mutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sunday, March  9 at 10:04 PM, quoth Jörg Sommer:
>>>| charset-hook ^iso-8859-1$ cp1252
>>
>>Works! I don't understand why, because I read the manual as charset-hook
>>(re)defines iso-8859-1, but it works.
>
> FYI it works beccause cp1252 is a superset of iso-8859-1 (in other 
> words, all valid characters in iso-8859-1 are the same characters in 
> cp1252, but cp1252 has a few extra ones).

Thanks for this explanation. I ever thought cp1252 is something like
iso-8859-9 or -15.

Bye, Jörg.
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