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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Re: Localization in Header?
From:       Michael =?iso-8859-1?q?H=E4ckel?= <haeckel () kde ! org>
Date:       2002-01-30 18:34:31
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On Wednesday 30 January 2002 18:47:18, Volker Augustin wrote:
> > Mails sent by non-broken mails clients are displayed correctely.
>
> Looks lik a lot of clients are broken :-)

Unfortunately, especially web mail services.

> How can I see if this is the case? When I take a look at the message
> source, the subject line is in cyrillic. Mail is attached.

Correct would be:
Subject: =?windows-1251?b?3uHo6+Xp7fvpIOru7fbl8PIg4/Dz7+/7?=
 "=?windows-1251?b?wMrCwNDI08w=?="

"View source" uses the encoding from the charset paramenter in Content-Type 
header which at least exists in this mail.

We could indeed work around this for at least displaying the message, but in 
the headers pane, this is at least with IMAP impossible, because we don't 
know the Content-Type header when fetching the header envelope. It we want to 
support this everywhere, it lead to loss of performance for example for 
searching.

Then there seem to be especially in Russia lots of mails around, that don't 
even have a charset specified in the Content-Type header. In this case only 
manually setting for every mail helps.

Regards,
Michael Häckel
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