Hi again,

>> Everyone's mail situation is unique, but I haven't noticed this
>> problem. Do you have a mechanical (e.g. scripted) way of detecting such
>> mails? I suppose it could just look for characters in the range 0x80 to
>> 0x95 in allegedly ISO_8859-1 messages. A census of the situation in my
>> own mail would help me think about this problem, I think.
>
> Yes, I guess that should be a good enough heuristic for detecting
> affected mail. I'll try to come up with a simple script and post it
> here.

Attached is a Python script that checks individual message files and
prints their name if it finds them to contain mislabeled Windows-1252
text. The heuristic seems to work well on my mail - let me know if you
encounter any issues!

Cheers,
Sebastian


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