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From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Subject: Re: charset=iso8859-1 (sic)
Date: 21 Apr 2000 15:41:58 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3snwffu55.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <shembs5upu.fsf@tux.gnu.franken.de>

Karl EICHWALDER <ke@gnu.franken.de> writes:

> I just re-read a mail with the following MIME headers (note "charset"!):
> 
>     MIME-Version: 1.0
>     Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso8859-1
>     Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
> 
> I wondering whether I'm allowed to vote that Gnus should recognize those
> settings as well: "iso[-_]?8859[-_]?1" ?

You can, but I don't think that Gnus should go around trying to "fix"
the charset specified by other software.  Down that road lies
madness. 

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen



  reply	other threads:[~2000-04-21 13:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-01-08 17:39 Karl EICHWALDER
2000-04-21 13:41 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2000-04-26 13:39   ` Karl EICHWALDER

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