charset=iso8859-1 (sic)

charset=iso8859-1 (sic)

[Karl EICHWALDER]

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" ?

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Re: charset=iso8859-1 (sic)

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

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. 

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Re: charset=iso8859-1 (sic)

[Karl EICHWALDER]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> > 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. 

Agreed -- but I didn't vote to "fix" typos like "iso-8895-1".  I didn't
how generous is the glibc; at least the glibc treats LANG=de_DE and
LANG=de_de as equal -- okay, not LANG=de-de nor LANG=deDE...

Maybe, you're completely right ;-)

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