31 Mar
2002
31 Mar
'02
12:49 p.m.
You tell me what happens when I post in Japanese, then the next person posts in Chinese, then the next person posts in German.
You get an unreadable, illegally encoded HTML file that may scramble peoples' terminals or crash them.
If you have found a solution for this other than converting everything to UTF-8, I would love to hear it.
Just try my patch. As usual, pipermail will count the number of articles by encoding, and select the majority encoding as the encoding of the index. All messages in other encodings will be converted to that encoding. If conversion fails, HTML character references are emitted. It requires a codec for all encodings but the majority encoding. Look Ma, no UTF-8. Regards, Martin