Re: dashes and non-breaking spaces

[Karl Eichwalder]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

>     I often receive broken UTF-8 messages.  People quote UTF-8 texts with
>     German "umlauts" and treat these texts as iso-8859-1 encoded resulting
>     in escapes instead of 'ß', for example:
>
> It would be interesting to investigate why those messages were decoded
> incorrectly.

Broken by the mail program of my mail partner.  His mail program treats
all mails as iso-8859-1 resp. windows-1252 encoded and while he answers
the encoding mixture happens.

> Maybe we could improve the decoding heuristics.

I think it isn't worth the trouble (to many false positives?).  If you
want to try: If an iso-8859-1 labeled text contains escapes, most
probably it is windows-1252 encoded; if there are still escapes and the
text is quoted, try to treat it as UTF-8.

-- 
http://www.gnu.franken.de/ke/                           |      ,__o
                                                        |    _-\_<,
                                                        |   (*)/'(*)
Key fingerprint = F138 B28F B7ED E0AC 1AB4  AA7F C90A 35C3 E9D0 5D1C