To be fair ... that's completely permitted according to the spec!
That doesn't make it a good idea. :-)
The decoder used by the format engine can deal with that (but as
David mentioned, it's only designed to convert stuff to the native
character set).
The problem here isn't the character set conversion, but decoding from
quoted-printable (in this case, or whatever encoding is used in general).
The goal is, and has always been, to save the message in a format that can
be searched easily at a later date.
Anything that interferes with that unnecessarily is perverse, at least in
my opinion. :-/
- Steven
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