Bugs item #659014, was opened at 2002-12-27 09:25 You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=100103&aid=659014&group_id=103

Category: mail delivery

Group: 2.1 final Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: Jost Krieger (jkrieger) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: decoration problems with German lists

Initial Comment: header and

1. German is one of the languages where the mapping to a acharacter set is currently ambiguous: If you want a Euro sign, you have to use iso-8859-15, most people still have iso-8859-1 and some have iso-8859-2 (which also contains all German glyphs).
2. People hat getting there mails in three text/plain parts (partly due to the deficiencies of their mail readers).
3. List owners tend to put plain ASCII into their

footer files, but this doesn't help, unfortunately, as Mailman still thinks it *must* be iso-8859-1. 4. MIME RFCs recommend taking the lowest compatible charset. This sometimes leads to Mailman messages consisting of three ASCII parts.

One longtime solution would be to upgrade everything to Unicode and downgrade it later on as far as possible. This sounds expensive, though. Another, cheaper possibility might be to attach a character set to haeders and footers.

Jost

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