On November 9, 2006 at 11:10, Jym Dyer wrote: > > MS Outlook has a nasty habit of mislabeling the charset of its > > messages with iso-8859-1 instead of MS's extension to it that > > contain the characters being used. > > =v= Some older versions send out mail that does't specify a > charset, so many apps assume the text is ASCII (which is how the > standard works) though of course it's Windows-1252.
You should be able to alias us-ascii also: <CharsetAliases> cp1252; us-ascii cp1252; iso-8859-1 </CharsetAliases> > > =v= Those particular characters in Windows-1252 violate charset > standards anyway. However, it appears that cp1252 is a proper subset of iso-8859-1 from a code-point persective. --ewh
