At 08.16 -0500 04-09-02, Vaudreuil, Greg M (Greg) wrote:
I assume you get predominately 8859-1 mislabled as US-ASCII based on the fact
you predominantely communicate with folks in a Western European language. I
bet someone using say Cyrilc would have a predominant error condidition of a
different 8859 varient mis-labled as US-ASCII.
Why would we assume the broken mailers would any more ensure that characters
are in 8859-1 than they would ensure that what is labled is correct? What if
the standard, or IETF in a BCP, says "treat this error as X" and a mailer used
in a different region made a different error?
My idea was to either have a setting for which charset
to assume in this case, or derive a setting from other
settings, such as the language or charset the person
has as default when sending mail.
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Jacob Palme <jpalme(_at_)dsv(_dot_)su(_dot_)se> (Stockholm University and KTH)
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