Re: why no META tag for charset?

2000-04-21 Thread Jeff Breidenbach
>A potential solution would be to put the different message parts into >different files in the archive, and use the remainder of the message as >a container for URLs to those files, mimicking the MIME message >structure in HTML. I haven't looked to see how/if one can do that in >MHonarc, but thi

Re: why no META tag for charset?

2000-04-21 Thread Denis McKeon
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jeff Breidenbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>This is the problem, HTML does not support mixed character sets. >>Also, the charset affects the entire HTML document. Therefore, your >>resource settings would have to conform with the charset, and this >>can be a big proble

Re: why no META tag for charset?

2000-04-21 Thread Jeff Breidenbach
>This is the problem, HTML does not support mixed character sets. >Also, the charset affects the entire HTML document. Therefore, your >resource settings would have to conform with the charset, and this >can be a big problem if messages existing in the archive have different >specified charsets.

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

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