[gmime-devel] Encoding headers: Is UTF-8 a sane default now?

[Michael Gratton <mike vee net>]

Hi all,

Looking back through GMime bugs in b.g.o, it seems that in 2007 anyway 
using UTF-8 as a default encoding for headers was a bad idea. Is this 
still the case? I ask because a user has reported a Geary bug[0] that 
suggest for Greek at least ISO8859 is deprecated these days in favour 
of UTF-8, and indeed one mailer (Rainloop) seems to have problems with 
the older encoding.

I can have Geary init GMime to default to UTF-8 for encoding non-ASCII 
headers, but is that a good idea today?

//Mike

[0] - <https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=753870>

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