Re: Patch to handle undeclared 8 bit characters

Christian Ebert <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.slrn.user
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
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