Stephen Warren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> At present, my patch ensures that it only parses None/UTF-8
> encoded data, because I don't know if/how it would work on other
> types... Are there other types that are likely?

Goodness, yes.  Actually, very few mail clients grok UTF-8 at this
point.  Instead, they use what many call RFC 2047 "gobbledygook" to
support a whole slew of encodings.

> I'm in need of a good overview of I18N/UTF-8/unicode/etc.!

The current situation is more complex that you'd ever imagine.
Unicode is the eventual answer, but that's still a ways away.

Here are some links that helped me when I was learning about I18N in
e-mail:

* Introduction to i18n - http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/intro-i18n/

* The ``International templates'' section I wrote for the template
  HOWTO - http://tmda.net/howto-template.html

* Internationalized headers -
  http://mimelib.sourceforge.net/docs/module-email.Header.html

* ISO 8859 Alphabet Soup - http://czyborra.com/charsets/iso8859.html

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