[Users] What do menu items under View|Character encoding do, precisely?

Ian Zimmerman itz at buug.org
Fri Aug 29 04:32:17 CEST 2014


On Thu, 28 Aug 2014 10:38:19 +0100
Paul <claws at thewildbeast.co.uk> wrote:

Ian> If it does override, is there any way to configure a
Ian> fallback?

Paul> Set the hidden option 'utf8_instead_of_locale_for_broken_mail'.

Then there must be a bug, because my locale *is* UTF-8, but broken
messages (those without Content-Type but actually not pure ASCII
and encoded in UTF-8) show mojibake [1].

Thanks for your reply.

[1]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mojibake

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