Re: [hypermail] charset usage

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From: Peter C. McCluskey (pcm@rahul.net)
Date: Fri Nov 16 2001 - 20:07:31 CST


 rl@math.technion.ac.il (Zvi Har'El) writes:
>Dear Daniel,
>
>I ran hypermail on my archive and checked: %c really produces for message files
>the whole META tag if the charset is not US-USASCII or ISO-8859-1. In the
>latter cases it is empty (modulo an extra new-line). It is also empty for index
>files. I suggested that for message file that do contain ISO-8859-1 charset,
>the META tag is produced, since otherwise the page will be displayed by the
>browser using its default charset, which might be other then latin1.

 I finally got around to looking at this, and I'm wondering why someone
decided to treat these charsets specially (see line 1502 of parse.c).
 Does anyone know of a reason not to change it so that these 2 charsets
are treated the same as others?

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