[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> robert burrell donkin schrieb:
> > On 5/7/07, robert burrell donkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> On 5/7/07, ketanbparekh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > I am running on Windows XP Professional.
> >>
> >> windows has a difficult default platform encoding so this may well be
> >> the problem
> >
> > i've taken a look at the code in SieveToMultiMailbox and SieveFactory.
> > i think that we have encoding issues. the current code will use  the
> > default platform encoding. when using windoz, this will result in
> > UFT-8 and UFT-16 encoded files being decoded incorrectly when (some)
> > non-ASCII characters are present.

Yes, I rather suspected this :(

> > to fix these issues, an encoding charset needs to be specified
> >
> > i can think of a couple of options (hopefully people will jump in with
> > any i've missed):
> >
> > 1 JAMES should support a single, hard coded charset (probably UFT-8)
> >
> > 2 we allow charset to be injected through configuration; defaulting to:
> >  2a UFT-8
> >  2b platform
> >
> > opinions?
> >
> > - robert 
> 
> Hi Robert,
> 
> I think UTF-8 as default i not a good choice because some OS not support
> UTF-8 by default. Maybe
> ISO-8859-1 is a better choice.. A configuration option whould be cool
> too for sure ;-)
> 
> bye
> Norman

 
As the spec. prescribes UTF-8, I rather think that this should be the default. 
As we are running in a VM, that the undetlying OS does or doesn't support UTF-8 
isn't an issue. The VM will. We just need to make sure this is what we specify 
when dealing with character set sensitive code.

Cheers

Steve


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