rfc2047-default-charset?

rfc2047-default-charset?

[Simon Josefsson]

rfc2047-default-charset defaults to 'iso-8859-1, which result in
headers containing characters with this encoding is not rfc2047
("encoded word") encoded.

What are the reasoning behind the default?  Mail to certain
destination (MDA-specific, not MTA-specifc) bounce with "Data format
error", because of the 8 bit characters in the header.

Is there a (standard) MIME header that Gnus can add to tell servers
what character set were used in the 8-bit headers?

IMHO rfc2047-default-charset should default to 'us-ascii. This way
Gnus never sends out thoose 8-bit header characters, whoose encoding
can't be determined by clients/MDAs.

Re: rfc2047-default-charset?

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Simon Josefsson <jas@pdc.kth.se> writes:

> rfc2047-default-charset defaults to 'iso-8859-1, which result in
> headers containing characters with this encoding is not rfc2047
> ("encoded word") encoded.
> 
> What are the reasoning behind the default?

People in some locales will want to use a local character set as the
default character set.  This logic is a bit sketchy to me at this
point, and I don't think this belongs in the rfc2047-* realm, in any
case, so I'll probably move this out somewhere else after thinking
some more about these things.

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