Greetings all,
With the greater MIME-ification of nmh (long overdue!) I've been grappling
with to do when we have issues with character set conversion. Specifically,
I have two issues:
- What to do if the character set is unsupported. Like if we don't have
iconv, or we get a character set that is not supported by the current
implementation of iconv. Should we return the original bytes? An error?
Nothing? Some string which says, "We cannot convert klingon-8842 to
us-ascii" or the equivalent?
- What to do when we cannot convert a particular character. This is a little
more clear; the general trend is to use a substitution character.
Thoughs? In particular I'm working on MIME parameters, but thoughts about
what to do in general are welcome. Right now are approach is scattershot.
--Ken
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