On Fri, 2006-03-24 at 09:22 +0100, Paul J Stevens wrote: [snip] > char * gmime_utils_header_encode_phrase(unsigned char *in); > > That call does a best-effort attempt at finding the right encoding for > the utf-8 string 'in', which in this case returns iso-8859-5, even > though that charset is said to be the least popular encoding for > cyrillic characters according to the comments in gmime-utils.c. > > So, if it works for you I'm happy with it. If it becomes a problem for > other users later on, we can escalate this upstream to the good folks at > redhat who are working on gmime.
Incidentally, I found the GMime maintainer to be responsive and easy to work with. Don't hesitate to bring this up with him, as it will be one more "data point" the next time he looks at some of the encoding issues. Aaron
