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Comment	>> If the reply_headers preference is set, >> IMP_Compose#replyMessageText() is inserting the decoded From: header >> into the message text. This header might contain non-ASCII >> characters. When determining the message's charset further down, only >> the original message's charset is considered though. This is a >> problem if the original message matches the email charset of the >> current language (so that we don't use UTF-8 for the reply message), >> but the From: header can not be converted to that charset. > > I'm thinking we should junk a) auto-determining charset of outgoing > reply message based on the original message and b) doing away with > the sending_charset preference. In other words, we should send > everything in UTF-8. Are there really mail readers out there in 2011 > that still don't support UTF-8? > > I am more inclined to keep a) simply because it gives us hard > information that the sender can at least read the e-mail message (on > at least one of his MUA's) in that charset. And generally people > aren't doing something like responding to a Norwegian message in > Mandarin Chinese, so this charset hint is useful in almost all cases. > But the code would be so much easier to maintain if we just convert > everything to UTF-8 and consistently stick with that internally. > > a) would work better if we had some way of telling that the > conversion from UTF-8 -> other charset was unsuccessful (e.g. there > is no codepoint mapping for a certain character). But I don't think > our conversion methods give us this kind of feedback so that is not > helpful. > > Having the user pick the charset is simply out of the question. > Nobody, outside of maybe programmers and computer scientists, has any > clue what charsets mean anyway, so giving them an option to change is > completely pointless. > > Thoughts?
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