Katsuhiko Momoi wrote:

> Neil wrote:
>
>> Katsuhiko Momoi wrote:
>>
>>> There is a bug requesting that Mozilla use the charset specified in 
>>> the body when MIME charset info is not found in headers.
>>>
>>> http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=77903
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks for the quick response!
>>
>>> This would work for POP mail but not really for IMAP mail since the 
>>> headers are downloaded first without peeking into the message body 
>>> or downloading it.
>>
>>
>>
>> Surely Content-Type is a header? Although this might not work for 
>> multipart messages. 
>
>
> I don't know exactly how this part works but it is my impression that 
> currently Mozilla downloads a "minimum" header set to create the 
> thread pane view for IMAP. But for the bug above, we might request 
> Content-type header in addition. Does anyone know what headers are 
> fetched in IMAP protocol by default or can a user agent specify what 
> headers to download?
>
> As for the multi-part messages, I think it would be reasonable to take 
> the first part as the basis for guessing the header charset. This 
> should catch a majority of cases. 

Reasonable in concept but I guess this won't work because multi-part 
charset info is in the bodies. I don't think there is an easy way to 
correct the thread pane display afer the bodies are downloaded, either.

>
>
>>
>>
>> BTW I noticed that when I forwarded the message the attachments pane 
>> displayed in Cyrillic but when I read the message in the newsgroup 
>> the attachment displays some Windows-1252 gibberish :-(
>
>
> There might be a bug for this problem already. Let me CC a couple of 
> Mail testing people.  If you have a specific example/test case, you 
> might want to file a bug to see if there is a duplicate bug.
>
> - Kat
>

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Katsuhiko Momoi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Web Standards/Embedding
Netscape Technology Evangelism/Developer Support



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