"Dan" == Dan Mick <dmick@utopia.west.sun.com> writes:
Dan> Well, so, one of them has no charset expressed at all that I Dan> can see.That means their charset is us-ascii. Is the list set to some other language? Could you please post the configuration of the list, and an example message without footer that was sent to the list?
Basically, we need to deal with the case where a list is configured for something like iso-8859-2, but a user sends a message in iso-8859-1, or utf-8, etc. In these cases, we can't just tack the footer on -- we'll get a garbage message! We have to avoid adding a footer if the charsets mismatch; no other way about it.
Why a garbage message? Why not just a (potentially) garbage footer?
Dan> Not really, if appropriate workaround is "ignore the incoming Dan> charset and add this footer unconditionally please".But this is the worst thing you can do. What happens when I post a message in UTF-8 and then a Japanese ISO-2022-JP footer gets tacked on? Not good.
I'd be more concerned about what happened to the message, since it's apparently sent in a language that can't be understood by its audience.
There's something about the fullness of charset processing that I don't grok. I think it has to do with design. Are there design notes somewhere?