Re: LYNX-DEV Re: MIME charset headers for mail

[Hynek Med]

On Sun, 13 Apr 1997, Klaus Weide wrote:

> With the chartrans code, use LYCharSet_UC[i].MIMEname, where i is the
> current_char_set.

Thanks. 

> I suggest you check whether the string begins with "x-" and, if yes, don't
> use those "internal use only" names.

I tried to send a mail without Content-Type header, but with other MIME
headers, and somebody on the way (I suppose one of the sendmails 8.x) 
added there: 

Content-Type: text/plain; charset=unknown-8bit

So, do you suggest:

a) ignoring the MIME altogether
b) saying charset=unknown-8bit

I'd speak for b), if it's allowed by the norms. My reasons are that when
there aren't any MIME headers, MTAs sometimes treat the document as real
US-ASCII and strip the top bit..

Hynek

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