Re: [patch] be more liberal in accepting wrongly encoded national chars

[Albrecht Dreß <albrecht dress arcor de>]

Am 08.02.03 20:11 schrieb(en) Carlos Morgado:
> i may be having a memory lapse here but i think rfc clearly states
> us-ascii unless told otherwise.

No, no, you are **absolutely** right here!! A mail without mime headers 
*must* not contain anything else but us-ascii. Full stop. So there is a 
really good reason to pop up a warning if balsa displays such a mail.

The problem is that there *are* broken sending mua's (not only web 
mailers), and it is annoying to see all those "?" with balsa 2. Assuming a 
reasonable 8-bit charset would not do anything more than emulating balsa 
1's behaviour. Currently, when I get one of those mails (among others a 
local cinema's program sent by a broken perl script, which is *no* spam 
;-)), I shut down balsa 2 and run balsa 1 to read it. As balsa 1 does not 
use utf8, it silently uses the current locale's charset for displaying 
such mails.

Cheers,

	Albrecht.


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