Håkan Lindqvist wrote: > On tis, 2006-03-14 at 16:05 +0100, Thomas Bruederli wrote: >> If a message specifies it's charset in the Content-Type header, RC will >> attempt to convert it to UTF-8. This does not work for HTML messages >> that have chars encoded with html entities. A decoding function handling >> html entities has to be written for that. Anyone? > > But aren't HTML entities already charset agnostic?!
I guess they aren't. An entity like ü represents a single byte char (ASCII 252; "ü" in ISO-8859-1). As far as I know the browser will not display this entity correctly because it expects double-byte characters. Please correct me if I'm wrong... > > Do really HTML entities have to be transformed in any way? > > (Sorry that I jump into this discussion without fully reading up on what > has been said before, but it just sounds so weird to me.) > > > /Håkan ~Thomas
