Re: report on [bad] status of i18n of gnome apps - somebody should

[Vlad Harchev <hvv hippo ru>]

On 14 Apr 2001, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:

> And what if the message body doesn't have a charset value?
> 
> If the mailer was so broken as to not put the charset in the header,
> then it's probably dumb enough to not set the charset for the body
> either.
> 
> If that's the case, well, then you're assbarned either way.

 Such mails are very unusual IMO - I think the only sensible way to handle 
them is to treat charset as iso-8859-1.
 
> Jeff
> 
> On 25 Mar 2001 22:45:36 -0500, Alan Cox wrote:
> > 
> > > > displays underscores for chars > 127 in subject AFAIR, so please fix
> > > > this - that's the most fatal flaw so far that makes it unusable even if it's
> > > > used only for reading mails (i.e. if not caring about encodings the messages
> > > > are sent with Evo are in)!
> > > 
> > > I'm sorry, but those mailers are totally broken, end of story.
> > 
> > Welcome to the real world. There are two conventions in use
> > #1 putting the type into the subject header
> > #2 assuming the message encoding
> > 
> > If you don't support these your mailer is junk. Quite possibly perfectly 
> > gloriously RFC correct, but still junk
> > 

 Best regards,
  -Vlad