GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 89280
add 'unicode utf-8' to the list of possible charsets
Last modified: 2006-06-18 04:56:39 UTC
Since pan ignores any charset defined when composing a message (see issue 88670) and instead sends utf-8 encoded messages, adding a option to use 'charset=utf-8' would be a temporary workaround for the mentioned bug, as well as a feature that will gain more and more importance in near future... This shouldn't be hard to implement either, since pan correctly adds the selectet charset to the mime-header (it just doesn't convert the message-body) You may even make utf-8 the default charset.
Created attachment 10103 [details] [review] diff to add utf-8 to the list of possible charsets, also makes utf-8 the default
Wow, that was easier than I expected :-) - My first patch to a program... The patch adds the mentioned functionality and also updates the pan.pot-file (you may probalby run intltool-update yourself?). I'm not sure if the patch is in the right format or if it has any side-effects. Anyway, pan now produces correct postings per default (some peaple may complain because their news-reader connot handle utf-8, but who cares ;->
Since Chris is Pan's i18n guru, I'm assigning this to him. Chris: IMO adding utf-8 to the option menu is a good idea, but making it the default charset is a mistake because there may still be newsreaders that don't support it.
The i18n Guru (what? :)) says: Martin T. already suggested this. Thanks for the patch, though. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 88669 ***