Am Donnerstag, 22. März 2007 15:43 schrieb Arne Schmitz:
> Maybe we could change the history format a bit? We could flag messages
> which are in old format, so we know that a user-applied encoding should be
> used.

The user applied encoding is not really known - as soon as I change the global 
encoding or the user-specific encoding, this would yield wrong results. The 
transition from special to UTF-8 encoding would be smoother, but the history 
files are left in an inconsistent state.

As long as the history files are not in UTF-8 (or any arbitrary, but fixed 
encoding), we cannot make safe assumptions about the encoding at all.

> Or maybe we should have an encoding button in the history, to be able to
> recover old messages. But storing new messages would always happen in
> UTF-8.

What about encoding the entire history in UTF-8 and still have the opportunity 
to re-encode mis-encoded messages?

Stefan

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