[tlug] Re: Selective mojibake email

[Tobias Diedrich <td@example.com>]

Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> According to the headers you posted, both browsers and server are
> broken.  The User-Agent, IMP/PHP IMAP webmail program 2.2.7, is
> presumably just assuming that anything with high bit set is Latin-1
> (so don't go discussing the price of French wine).  Blarg.  Maybe that
> can be configured, eg to Shit JIS, but then you'll have Win2k users
> sending UTF-16, and maybe somebody really does want to discuss the
> price of French wine in French using ISO 8859/15?

The problem here might just be that browsers don't seem to specify the
charset they use for text on post operations. (As it's a web email
client) I have the same problem with a Forum I tried to make usable for
both japanese and german postings. IE and Netscape are more or less
sane, they post in the same charset as the document itself is in, but
Opera seems to always use iso-8859-1... I wrote to them about that but
never got a reply. So he may just have to modify the webmailer to have
it's pages in utf-8 and interpret the posted form data in utf-8 and
convert to iso-2022-jp if all characters have a representation in that
one.

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