On Wednesday 08 July 2009 05:39:56 Warren Togami wrote:
> >NOTE: the optional Encode::Detect module is not installed.
> >   If you plan to use the normalize_charset config setting to detect
> >   charsets and convert them into Unicode, you will need to install
> >   this module.
>
> What is the performance impact of using normalize_charset?
>
> Why is this not required by default?

It can be really slow with some rules (by a factor of 30), see:

  https://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=5691

I admit I lost interest in it and just turned it off, as my problem report
was dismissed as invalid two years ago.

> Is this necessary to filter mail for Asian languages?

Don't know.

  Mark

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