Re: Patch to handle undeclared 8 bit characters
Christian Ebert <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.network.slrn.user |
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| Organization | Black Trash Productions <http://www.blacktrash.org/> |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
* Thomas Wiegner on Monday, June 11, 2007 at 22:28:56 +0200: > I wrote a small patch to handle postings with undeclared 8 bit > characters in the Subject, Header and also undeclared 8 bit > characters in the body with a missing "Content-Type:" Header > (mostly created by MS Outlook Express). > > When running slrn in an UTF-8 environment this will result in > displaying things like "Gr<FC><DF>e" instead of "Grüße". I'm very pleased with the patch. I vote for inclusion ;) At least of the functionality it provides. What it doesn't cater for are quoted printable message with wrong charset declaration (G-Mail), like us-ascii, but containing 8 bit characters. See Message-ID: <[email protected]> in de.comp.text.tex for an example. c -- Make Slrn newsreader read MIME (Python required): <http://www.blacktrash.org/hg/SlrnMime/> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/