[Alpine-info] Unknown charset still not working as expected in 2.00

[Dirk Stöcker]

On Tue, 30 Sep 2008, Steve Hubert wrote:


>>  I recently got a mail, where the mail body contained proper iso-8859-1

>>  encoding, but subject and from used direct iso-8859-1 without proper

>>  encoding.

>>

>>  Now that is a case, where the unknown charset should catch. Whenever in

>>  the header lines a non-ASCII charcter is found without proper encoding,

>>  than it should be displayed in the unknown encoding charset.

>

> Yes, I agree. That is what unknown charset is supposed to do. Can you send an 

> example to alpine-contact at u.washington.edu or to this mailing list and


Attached.


> explain exactly where it is that you don't see this happening? I'm assuming 

> you're talking about the message view screen. Thanks.


In message index and message view. There is a "?" in my name and also in 
"Straße", but there should be a 'ö' or 'ß'. The mail contains the 
iso-8859-1 'ö' and 'ß' unencoded in the to name/subject. I use UTF-8.

Ciao
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