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

[albrecht dress arcor de]

> I think the best POV is to always *send* standard-compliant messages 
> and make a good job of interpreting damaged messages which the world is 
> full of.

Exactly! And balsa is *really* good in sending such messages.

> What about a menu option:
> 
> View/Use Charset/iso-8858-1,iso-8858-2 , etc?

I currently work on a patch (half ready; not a one-liner any more, though...) which adds two radio buttons plus a menu to the config

Handling of national (8-bit) characters in broken mails
[ ] replace them by "?"
[ ] interpret them as xxx

where xxx is the option menu with options "west European", "east European", etc. etc. Thanks to Jeffrey's excellent infos, it should detect automagically if it's an iso or winbloze charset. Stay tuned (sorry, I'm packed with work these days...).

Cheers, Albrecht.


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