Re: why no META tag for charset?

2000-04-20 Thread Earl Hood
On April 20, 2000 at 12:05, Jeff Breidenbach wrote: > > > But as far as I can tell, MHonArc won't produce that meta tag. Thus > the character set information is lost, which can result in a difficult > to render web page. > > I suspect there is a reason for this, but I'm not sure what it > is

Re: why no META tag for charset?

2000-04-20 Thread Oskar Bartenstein
In mhonarc.rc (in our installation in mhonarc/lib/perl5/site_perl/ ) you can override the and similar with entries like -- : -- Of course you will want to convert incoming mail the that character set beforehand. Also, this does not cover the Subject: lines, attachment etc. Worst: to me i

Re: MHonarc archives with internationalisation

2000-04-20 Thread Jeff Breidenbach
I wrote a large (English) resource file that overrode almost everything. Then I wrote a short sed script to create a derived resouce file, replacing all the English words with the localized language. As far as I can tell, this is approach is the most reasonable way to support localization, if you

why no META tag for charset?

2000-04-20 Thread Jeff Breidenbach
Recently, I've been on an internationalization/localization kick. I just read the relevant portion of the HTML specification and found it refreshingly clear. Let's assume I want to process an email with some weird character set, like ISO646-SE. It appears the right thing for MHonArc to do is pro

Re: MHonarc archives with internationalisation

2000-04-20 Thread Thomas Rother
Jeff Breidenbach schrieb: > Coincidentally, I'm also working on a French localization right now. I am also interested in a localization, for the german language. Is there any "cookbook example" which describes only those rcfile settings which are necessyry for this job? There are examples for Mh