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Subject: Re: rfc2047-default-charset?
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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.

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