[Mailman-Developers] Missing footers with latest CVS

[Tokio Kikuchi]

Hi,

Ben Gertzfield wrote:

>>>>>>"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.  


Well, people around in Japan still use older MUAs and don't
add charset for Japanese messages.

So, the meaning of no charset should depend on the
mm_cfg.DEFAULT_SERVER_LANGUAGE, I suppose.

>     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.


That's why you need to 'normalize' the charsets of incoming mail
(into Unicode).



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