Re: [Evolution] Character encoding specified in Content-Type field of outgoing messages

[guenther <guenther rudersport de>]

On Mon, 2003-04-07 at 19:35, Mikhail Ramendik wrote:
> guenther writes:
>
> > So I am begging Evo on my knees to send it as ISO-8859-15. However, Evo
> > does not answer my prayers -- and the test mail got sent as
> >  Content-Type: text/plain
> >  Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
> >
> > So what is wrong with my usual signature and the string "wird gesendet
> > als 8859-1 ?\n\n", that it _must_ be 7 bit and does _not_ fit into 8
> > bit? ;-))
>
> I actually like the present behaviour.

Sure, as it leaves the message intact -- without guessing anything, that
you could not be sure about. You missed the part "no harm done" of my
previous post. There is nothing wrong with that.

What I had in mind was Dan's statement, Evo would take my preferred
charset, if it fits. That does mean, the message should have been sent
as 8859-15, though.


> I have koi8-r as the default code set. It has an entire different
> alphabet, Cyrillic. But when I write to international addressees (like
> now) I only use 7bit letters. And I like the fact that Evo will *not*
> mark this message as koi8-r. Otherwise, some Outlook user on the other
> side of the ocean might have Cyrillic fonts automatically installed,
> even though he could read the letter without them.

Same here. If all 7bit letters are a subset of koi8-r (sorry, I don't
know) Evo should respect your will and thus send it as koi8-r. Assuming,
the statement is right:

Dan said:
> > hint. "*IF* you can send this message in iso-8859-15, then please do so,
> > rather than using iso-8859-1". But if the message can't be encoded in

So IF 7bit ASCII is a subset of my preferred charset ISO-8859-15, then
send as that.  (In fact, substitute '7bit ASCII' by the body of my
ready-to-send mail.)

As my mail entirely consists of a subset of 7bit ASCII _and_
ISO-8859-15, why isn't my preference respected?

I suspect, Evo follows a slightly different logic:

  if ( subset_of( mail->body, ASCII ) )      // the difference
    send( mail, ASCII );
  else
    if (subset_of(  mail->body, preference->charset ) )
      send( mail, preferred->charset );
    else
      send( mail, guess_charset(mail->body) );

Of course, Dan, this one is for you. ;-)


Mikhail, again, nothing really wrong with that, as the mail gets to the
recipient like I intended.

...guenther


-- 
char *t="\10pse\0r\0dtu\0  ghno\x4e\xc8\x79\xf4\xab\x51\x8a\x10\xf4\xf4\xc4";
main(){ char h,m=h=*t++,*x=t+2*h,c,i,l=*x,s=0; for (i=0;i<l;i++){ i%8? c<<=1:
(c=*++x); c&128 && (s+=h); if (!(h>>=1)||!t[s+h]){ putchar(t[s]);h=m;s=0; }}}