Re: [Mailman-Developers] ASCII Prefixes

On Tuesday, July 23, 2002, at 09:36 , Barry A. Warsaw wrote:

BG> OTOOH, we could make *this* the per-list setting; we could
BG> have the heuristic guess whether to encode or not if the list
BG> owner wants it. That way we don't have to have a ton of prefix
BG> character set settings, and we make the people who get angry
BG> at seeing [MyFrenchList] encoded in header QP happy.

Is subject_prefix the only place this option would make sense? If so, then I can probably add a boolean variable to the General admin page, otherwise I might want to add something to the Languages page.

The only other place I could guess would be the message headers and footers. But bodies are so commonly encoded in quoted-printable these days that it's pretty much not an issue. I'll guess the only reason people have an issue with headers having encoded-words that don't "need to" be encoded is because there are a few people out there who don't have RFC-compliant mail readers.

Ben