Re: National characters and Hotmail

From: Carlos Morgado <chbm gnome org>
To: balsa-list gnome org
Subject: Re: National characters and Hotmail
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 23:05:36 +0000

On Tue, 29 Jun 2004 19:04:18, Kent Asplund wrote:


My comment:
I notice that "Content-Type" is missing a "charset" description. Should
not Balsa then use default charset or is this implying us-ascii?

No charset definition means us-ascii for backwards compat with older mailers. Keep in mind "default charset" is meaningless in the context of the message.

You should try viewing those messages in a webmail that uses a diferent charset on the rest of the page :)

I had the same problem in Mutt and added:
"charset-hook ascii iso-8859-1" in my .muttrc to solve it.

In balsa you can use Prefs->Display->Message->National... to hint balsa what it should do with broken messages.

-- Carlos Morgado - chbm(a)ma.ssive.net - http://chbm.net/ 0x1FC57F0A FP:0A27 35D3 C448 3641 0573 6876 2A37 4BB2 1FC5 7F0A

References:
- National characters and Hotmail
  - From: Kent Asplund

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