Re: [Evolution] Euro (€) support in 1.0

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

We try to keep things QP encoded if at all possible because this way if
the receiving end doesn't have a MIME compliant mailer, the recipient
can still "read" (mostly) what the text actually says. If we base64
encoded the subject, then you'd *have* to have a MIME mailer on the
receiving end.

When more pressing bugs/features are fixed/implemented - I suppose I can
try to compress the output down more but it's really insignificant in
the whole scheme of things.

Jeff

On Mon, 2002-01-07 at 12:53, Alexander Skwar wrote:
> So sprach »Jeffrey Stedfast« am 2002-01-05 um 15:10:30 -0500 :
> > There's really no use arguing over this because it's not an issue, it is
> > completely valid according to the rfcs and it also "Just Works".
>
> Okay, you're right.  Technically it's allowed.  However, can we agree
> that the way Evo encodes header fields is suboptimal?  If I type "wörter
> €uro" in the subject, Evo will use 2 charsets: iso-8859-1 and
> windows-1251.  This makes the subject unnecessary big, when using
> nothing but iso-8859-15 would be sufficient.
>
> Compare the way Evolution encodes "Test Subject with Wörter €uro ¢ent
> ¥en ä ö ü" to the way mutt does it:
>
> Evo:
> Subject: Test Subject with =?ISO-8859-1?Q?W=F6rter?=
>         =?windows-1251?Q?_=88uro?= =?ISO-8859-1?Q?_=A2ent?= =?ISO-8859-1?Q?_=A5en?=
>         =?ISO-8859-1?Q?_=E4?= =?ISO-8859-1?Q?_=F6?= =?ISO-8859-1?Q?_=FC?=
>
> mutt:
> Subject: Test Subject with =?iso-8859-15?Q?W=F6rter?=
>         =?iso-8859-15?B?IKR1cm8gomVudCClZW4g5CD2IPw=?=
>
> It shouldn't be too hard to "inspire" yourself with the way mutt handels
> this, should it?
>
> Alexander Skwar
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