Re: [Nmh-workers] Fixing decoding of quoted messages in replies

[markus schnalke]

[2010-10-26 21:03] Oliver Kiddle <address@hidden>
> markus schnalke wrote:
> 
> > (1) Showing messages with different charsets requires a line like
> >     mhshow-charset-iso-8859-1: iconv -f iso-8859-1 | %s
> > in the profile if your terminal is on UTF-8. It might be worth to
> > include such processing directly into nmh in order to make it more
> > usable out-of-the-box. Iconv is already available (if compiled in).
> 
> That would be good but you lose some flexibility. In some cases, I use
> the //TRANSLIT option on iconv. Also, I actually treat iso-8859-1 as
> windows-1252 because mails from Windows systems are sometimes
> incorrectly identified as iso-8859-1.

mhshow-charset- entries should have precedence, of course. Then
everything would be like now but text in foreign charsets gets
converted to the native charset if nothing else is said.


meillo