[sylpheed:30497] Re: problem with user specified encoding when replaying

[Andrei Mircea]

I support Cristian's reasonable proposal.

On Wed, 6 Dec 2006 01:15:32 +0200
Cristian Secară <orice at secarica.ro> wrote:

> Assume the following scenario: an UTF-8 encoded message is sent using
> ISO-8859-1 charset declaration.
> This is a real situation with e-mails sent from Yahoo Mail (the standard
> interface) or Yahoo Groups, because Yahoo declares the ISO-8859-1
> encoding for all outgoing messages, regardless the actual encoding of
> the message (which depends on the default or instant user selected
> browser encoding).
> 
> Problem:
> - by default, the message is displayed with some garbage (which
> is correct for the given situation)
> - I force UTF-8 encoding from View menu
> - the message is now displayed correctly
> - I hit "Reply"
> - the quoted message is again garbaged, ignoring my instant manually
> selected encoding preference
> - my own message will be written according to the default encoding
> (UTF-8 in my case), or my instant encoding selection at the time of
> writing; my own message will be correct, but the problem is that the
> quoted text remains wrong, with no possibility for the recipient to
> force a correct display for the quoted zone
> 
> Expected behaviour: the quoted text should follow the encoding that
> happen to be at the time of hiting the Reply button. If it was
> correct without any intervention, let it be correct. If it was wrong
> without any intervention, let it be wrong. If it was manually
> corrected, then let it be as it becomes after the manual selected
> status.
> 
> Cristi
> 
> -- 
> Cristian Secară
> http://www.secarica.ro/
>