[pmmail-list] windows-1251

[L.Willms]

On Sun, 27 Jun 2004 08:34:32 +0200, Per Jessen wrote:

> What do I need to do to make emails with charset=Windows-1251 
readable?  

  Well, the sender should better use standard character sets and not 
those Microsoft proprietary ones... but besides that: 

  One way would be to configure the default character set in the PMmail 
Properties (i.e. for all accounts, via the 'PMMail' menu) to the 
ISO-8859-x character set corresponding to this Microsoft proprietary 
character set. 
 
> Do I need to install something in Windows?  (This is on W2K). 

   I guess that under the current conditions, there is not much to do 
short of changing the CHARSET value in the corresponding header in an 
incoming filter applied to all incoming messages to the corresponding 
IS-8859-x value. 

   This can be done by configuring a "Message Receive Hook" on the 
"Hooks" page of the account properties. 

   Unfortunately I do not have a program ready which could do this, but 
I think about writing one. On OS/2, I would do it in REXX, but on 
Windows? 

   Then at least only those Microsoft additions to the standard 
character set would not be displayed correctly, but the main part would. 

   Not perfect, but the best of the rest. 

Yours, 
Lüko Willms
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Frankfurt/Main  



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