Re: [patch] treatment of wrongly encoded 8-bit messages

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

sure, although detecting windows-125x is fairly simple to do if you
*think* the charset is iso-8859-x at least (I've already got code in
evolution to do it).

suppose it doesn't hurt tho.

Jeff

On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 14:46, Albrecht Dreß wrote:
> Am 03.04.03 21:35 schrieb(en) Jeffrey Stedfast:
> > if you guys want to play with black magic, feel free to check out
> > http://primates.ximian.com/~fejj/charset-foo.[c,h]
> 
> Wow, that sounds cool! I opt for trying it. Looks as if we can simply put 
> it into libbalsa-utf8_sanitize() and then omit the extra options in the 
> prefs window (already crowded there...).
> 
> > btw, if any of you have text documents in any of those charsets (in
> > particular -4, -5, -8 and shift-jis since I am severely lacking in those
> > departments currently), feel free to send them to me so I can improve
> > support for detecting those charsets.
> 
> Are you interested in a windows-1252 text (with inter alia the Euro "¤" 
> character)? Afaik this is what winbloze clients produce (and claim to send 
> iso8859-1) in Old Europe, but it's missing in your list. I could send it 
> to you tomorrow (I have a win machine a work only).
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> 	Albrecht.
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Jeffrey Stedfast
Evolution Hacker - Ximian, Inc.
fejj@ximian.com  - www.ximian.com