Re: charset conversion in text/html
On Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 12:50:44PM -0400, Alexy Khrabrov wrote:
> No comments on HTML charset conversion yet:
>
> > Looks like $charset does not apply to text/html.
> >
> > Thus, one have to duplicate charset settings in
> > lynx|links|w3m|etc. Is there a way to apply
> > mutt's own conversion to text/* before handing
> > it out to the text/html MIME handler?
>
> Can somebody at confirm that's what you guys are
> doing? Say, reciving Japanese e-mail in HTML,
> or a version of Chinese?
>
> Because of it, you have to duplicate charset
> settings in the HTML dumper (dumpling?:) _and_
> in mutt. Of course, the dumpling can change,
> and it is plain tiresome. Wouldn't it be nice
> to have a config variable like
>
> auto_charset text/html
>
> a la auto_view, which will apply to those MIME
> types before passing them to auto_view?
> Then the list in auto_charset must be a subset of
> auto_view.
If you read section 5.3 of manual.txt you shall find there examples how
charset from the mail can be passed to the viewer. Now it depents on the
viewer if it can support given charset or not.
--
Andrei