GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 85510
Header pane should use newsgroup encoding
Last modified: 2006-06-18 05:15:45 UTC
When reading newsgroups for which a default encoding has been specified, the header pane should display article subjects using that encoding, if no other is specified within the article's own headers. This way people will be able to see their Euro signs, Russian characters, etc. in the subject lines -- currently the subject line is not displayed using the default (or article) encoding even when article is actually being read.
In theory, the articlelist shouldn't need to know what the group's default encoding is: subjects&authors should be 7bit, with 8bit characters quote-printable encoded. (at least, that's my understanding of the rfc's and I've known to be wrong on this :)) The problem is that many newsreaders do put 8bit characters in the headers. For these, we could convert them to utf8 using the group's charset. Even better would be to use the article's charset (if any), but this does mean getting that header while getting the article headers (NNTP XHDR command could be used for that).
Fixed for 0.12.1.