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Bug 90760 - pan doesn't set Content-Transfer-Encoding when sending 8bit
pan doesn't set Content-Transfer-Encoding when sending 8bit
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: Pan
Classification: Other
Component: general
0.13.0
Other Linux
: High normal
: 0.13.1
Assigned To: Charles Kerr
Pan QA Team
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2002-08-14 19:12 UTC by Christian Lohmaier
Modified: 2004-12-22 21:47 UTC
See Also:
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Description Christian Lohmaier 2002-08-14 19:12:01 UTC 
When posting with a charset that uses 8bit characters like latin1, pan
doesn't create the Content-Transfer-Encoding header.
pan just sets:
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
instead of
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Comment 1 Christian Lohmaier 2002-08-21 22:21:02 UTC 
changing version from 0.12.94 to 0.13.0
Comment 2 Jeffrey Stedfast 2002-09-10 20:00:39 UTC 
the Content-Transfer-Encoding only needs to be set to 8bit (or set at
all really) if there are 8bit characters in the content. The charset
makes no difference.

That said, I have written a gmime-filter that can be used to determine
the best encoding and/or charset to use for a mime part called
GMimeFilterBest
Comment 3 Christophe Lambin 2002-09-10 20:31:58 UTC 
Fixed in CVS with the following change, which I think is Good Enough (TM):

http://cvs.gnome.org/bonsai/cvsview2.cgi?diff_mode=context&whitespace_mode=show&subdir=pan/pan&command=DIFF_FRAMESET&file=message-window.c&rev1=1.320&rev2=1.321&root=/cvs/gnome

Time permitting, we can always replace this with fejj's GMimeFilterBest.