-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 15 October 2003 19:28, Rüdiger Kuhlmann wrote: > If you're in an UTF8 environment, you guarantee that all files on your > system are encoded in UTF8. All I was saying is that any program that > imports a file into your filesystem that's not in the specified encoding > is broken. That in particular applies to mail clients, and any such > client that doesn't cope with it should be deleted. Like elm and pine.
hmm... there are far too many programs who would have to be deleted... :( > > window. If mutt can do internal recoding, then it's fine, > > Which is what I'm saying because it is expected behaviour. Your KMail is > nothing special because it can do it. It was not very long ago that KMail was the only mail client which could do that. Plus I can change the charset on the fly if a bOrken mail comes in which doesn't state its encoding in the header. If other mail clients can do that too now, it's fine. I don't know about sylpheed and evolution now, but the last time I tried them thy couldn't do it. I know that mozilla can do it too. > > as long as the mails clearly state in their mime headers, which > > encoding they use. Some mails don't do it. > > If it doesn't, then it isn't mail, but a piece of electronic garbage. And > yes, some broken emailer from a well-known US software company sends a > lot of those. And unfortunately I get many of those... *grumble* Cheers Arne - -- Arne Goetje <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Spam catcher. Address might change in future!) PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/685D1E8C Fingerprint: 2056 F6B7 DEA8 B478 311F 1C34 6E9F D06E 685D 1E8C Key available at wwwkeys.pgp.net. Encrypted e-mail preferred. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/jfG2bp/QbmhdHowRAi1mAJ0UOHoQ1GfAYstYPOE5ZqqZpdfpWgCfU//L SRwmK4HuOem6TvOt/SlzVWI= =7orC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]