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 Saturday, June 30, 2007 at 12:14:55 +0200: > 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 great > 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". Works fine here. Again: I'm all for inclusion. 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/