[Mimedefang] Content-type charset

Philip Prindeville philipp_subx at redfish-solutions.com
Mon Apr 2 21:29:14 EDT 2007


Ahmad Cheikh Moussa wrote:
> Hi Phillips,
>
> Philip Prindeville wrote:
>   
>> If it isn't set, and none of the high bits are turned on,
>> then it's implicitly the default, USASCII.
>>
>> If there are high-bit characters and it isn't set, then it's
>> ambiguous (though likely ISO-8859-1)... and you can't
>> reliably guess.
>>     
> Yes, I can guess, because I know the sender.
> The problem is not depending on the clients.
> The problem exist, because I add a signature with 8-bit
> character set at the end of every e-mail.
>
> Regards,
>  Ahmad
>
>
>   

It's still your MUA that's at fault.

The MUA is adding the signature.  It's not correctly
detecting the file's type.

Period.

-Philip





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