[pmmail-list] patch to fix codepage issues in OS/2

Frank Winkler - Sun Germany REOS - Munich pmmail-list@blueprintsoftwareworks.com
Mon, 22 Jan 2001 15:53:38 +0100 (MET)


 >>What exactly does this patch do?
 >
 >It checks headers (main header and part headers) for "content-type"
 >with missing charset or with a charset containing "windows" an
 >patches a "content-type" with charset=iso-8859-1.  It also checks for
 >"content-transfer-encoding" and if none is found, it puts
 >"content-transfer-endoing: 8bit".  That fixes the most important
 >problems with PMMail and charset.  It's still not automatic or instant
 >(PMMail is slow at launching a filter executable), but it's better
 >than hand editing...

That's great! I've been planning to do exactly this with a REXX script 
but unfortunately, I've been too lazy up to now :( ... Thanks for your 
work.

Regards

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