Re: [hypermail] Re: Subject field handling

From: Peter C. McCluskey <pcm_at_rahul.net_at_hypermail-project.org>
Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 18:47:19 -0700 (PDT)
Message-Id: <20020827014719.08A277F99_at_yellow.rahul.net>


 peter_at_softwolves.pp.se (Peter Karlsson) writes:
>Daniel Stenberg:
>
>> Where 'iso-8859-1' is the charset, 'Q' is the encoding used
>> (Quoted-Printable), I think 'B' is used for base64, and then the
>> encoded-part that is the specified charset encoded as specified.
>
>That's correct. Please also note that this encoding can and may differ
>from the encoding used in the text body and/or in other headers in the
>mail.
>
>The real solution to this would probably be to recode all text parts of
>the message to a common encoding, like UTF-8, when storing in the
>archive.

 Hypermail doesn't appear to have any provision for handling multiple encodings in one message. I doubt I will get around to fixing this, so anyone who cares about this should feel encouraged to tackle it.

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