Re: Automatic codepage selection when replying

[Peter Bloomfield <peterbloomfield bellsouth net>]

On 03/13/2006 09:37:48 AM Mon, Mişu Moldovan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I love the new automatic selection of an appropriate codepage  
> when the reply to a mail contains characters outside the range  
> of the codepage of the original mail.
>
> However, I wonder why Balsa sometimes sends mail encoded with  
> the Windows-1250 codepage when replying in Romanian to an  
> US-ASCII encoded mail. Other time it uses ISO-8859-2, exactly  
> as it does when composing  from scratch a mail in Romanian.
>
> I wouldn't have noticed if it weren't for a bug in Outlook  
> which bites my co-workers which read those CP1250 encoded mails  
> in Outlook. Everything looks fine in Balsa/Evolution/Mozilla  
> clients, so I guess the mails are just fine in regards to the  
> standards. If I manually change the encoding to UTF-8 or if it  
> happens to leave in a ISO-8859-2 encoding, everything looks  
> fine in Outlook too.

Ouch--I hate it when I p*ss off my M$Win correspondents!

The reason for checking Windows-125x codepages is that some  
legacy clients incorrectly mark a message as ISO-8859-x when it  
actually contains non-ISO characters.  The issue is probably the  
order in which Balsa checks charsets: the 125x sets should  
perhaps be tried last.  We'll look into it.

Best,

Peter