View part with charset?

View part with charset?

[Kai Großjohann]

I can type `1 g' and then type in a charset to view a message using a
different charset.

But what if it's a multipart message, and a part says "Content-type:
text/plain; charset=foo" where the charset is wrong?

kai
-- 
The arms should be held in a natural and unaffected way and never
be conspicuous. -- Revised Technique of Latin American Dancing

Re: View part with charset?

[ShengHuo ZHU]

Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:

> I can type `1 g' and then type in a charset to view a message using a
> different charset.
> 
> But what if it's a multipart message, and a part says "Content-type:
> text/plain; charset=foo" where the charset is wrong?

It is supposed to ignore any charset.

Another way to show the part with the specified charset is to type 
`1 i' on the MIME button (valid since Oct 20).

ShengHuo

Re: View part with charset?

[Kai Großjohann]

On 06 Nov 2000, ShengHuo ZHU wrote:
> Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:
> 
>> I can type `1 g' and then type in a charset to view a message using
>> a different charset.
>> 
>> But what if it's a multipart message, and a part says
>> "Content-type: text/plain; charset=foo" where the charset is wrong?
> 
> It is supposed to ignore any charset.

Hm?  Oh, I think you mean that `1 g' on the message will display all
parts in that charset, regardless what the Content-type header says.

So if there are several text/plain parts, all of them will be
displayed with the same charset.  Good.  That surely works for many
situations. 

> Another way to show the part with the specified charset is to type 
> `1 i' on the MIME button (valid since Oct 20).

Nifty.  But not so nice if it's text/html, instead.

Do you think it would be hard to implement `1 RET' or something on the
MIME button which allowed the user to enter a charset?  Or `c' which
means `view this part with a different charset', in analogy to `t'.
Or even `1 t' means let the user enter both content-type and charset.

kai
-- 
The arms should be held in a natural and unaffected way and never
be conspicuous. -- Revised Technique of Latin American Dancing

Re: View part with charset?

[ShengHuo ZHU]

Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:

> Do you think it would be hard to implement `1 RET' or something on the
> MIME button which allowed the user to enter a charset?  Or `c' which
> means `view this part with a different charset', in analogy to `t'.
> Or even `1 t' means let the user enter both content-type and charset.

Done. Use `C' instead of `c', which means gnus-mime-copy-part.

ShengHuo