Re: Patch to handle undeclared 8 bit characters

Hi all,

* Thomas Wiegner ([email protected]) wrote [Mon, 070611 22:28]:

> 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).

OK, I updated the patch a little bit, setting the fallback_charset
variable slrn will now

* convert Subject and From Header to that charset if they contain
  unencoded 8 bit characters

* convert the body of a posting to that charset

  - if no content-type declaration is found in the headers
  - if the iconv function failed to convert to the charset declared
    in the headers

I also wrote an additional patch which allows you to override an
us-ascii charset declaration with the fallback charset. As Christian
pointed out, this might be useful for dealing with google postings,
which have 8 bit characters inside although they claim be
"us-ascii".

I put the patches on a website, you can find them with a detailed
description here:

 http://www.foory.de/thw/slrn/

Again, feedback is welcome, cheers,

 Thomas


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