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Re: [Nmh-workers] mojibake in UTF-8 encoded quoted-printable messages
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Ken Hornstein |
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Re: [Nmh-workers] mojibake in UTF-8 encoded quoted-printable messages |
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Thu, 24 Oct 2013 11:08:55 -0400 |
>Does one of the MIME RFCs require an encoding declaration when the
>charset is already given in the MIME header? If so, then virtually
>every email in my inbox which has a text/html part is wrong:
It's sort of a corner case, but RFC 2854 says that the "charset" MIME
parameter indicates the character set of the HTML in text/html parts. It
also says a charset parameter is "strongly recommended". I read it clearly
as saying that a charset MIME parameter applies to HTML in the absence of
an encoding parameter.
We don't have a straightforward way to put the charset into a MIME
display string. %a puts all of the MIME parameters in the output string,
and you could cook up something with that, although that isn't perfect.
I recently discovered that the mailcap is actually standardized in an
RFC; part of me thinks we should add support for that.
--Ken
- [Nmh-workers] mojibake in UTF-8 encoded quoted-printable messages, Joel Uckelman, 2013/10/24
- Re: [Nmh-workers] mojibake in UTF-8 encoded quoted-printable messages, Ken Hornstein, 2013/10/24
- Re: [Nmh-workers] mojibake in UTF-8 encoded quoted-printable messages, Joel Uckelman, 2013/10/24
- Re: [Nmh-workers] mojibake in UTF-8 encoded quoted-printable messages, Ralph Corderoy, 2013/10/24
- Re: [Nmh-workers] mojibake in UTF-8 encoded quoted-printable messages, Joel Uckelman, 2013/10/24
- Re: [Nmh-workers] mojibake in UTF-8 encoded quoted-printable messages,
Ken Hornstein <=
- Re: [Nmh-workers] mojibake in UTF-8 encoded quoted-printable messages, Ralph Corderoy, 2013/10/24
- Re: [Nmh-workers] mojibake in UTF-8 encoded quoted-printable messages, Joel Uckelman, 2013/10/24
- Re: [Nmh-workers] mojibake in UTF-8 encoded quoted-printable messages, Joel Uckelman, 2013/10/24
- Re: [Nmh-workers] mojibake in UTF-8 encoded quoted-printable messages, Ken Hornstein, 2013/10/24
- Re: [Nmh-workers] mojibake in UTF-8 encoded quoted-printable messages, Joel Uckelman, 2013/10/24
- Re: [Nmh-workers] mojibake in UTF-8 encoded quoted-printable messages, Ken Hornstein, 2013/10/24
- Re: [Nmh-workers] mojibake in UTF-8 encoded quoted-printable messages, Joel Uckelman, 2013/10/24
- Re: [Nmh-workers] mojibake in UTF-8 encoded quoted-printable messages, Ken Hornstein, 2013/10/24
- Re: [Nmh-workers] mojibake in UTF-8 encoded quoted-printable messages, Joel Uckelman, 2013/10/24
- Re: [Nmh-workers] mojibake in UTF-8 encoded quoted-printable messages, Ken Hornstein, 2013/10/24