This should be earmarked for Pan 0.12.0.

<charles> about charsets
<charles> someone posts a message with a mime header specifying a charset.
<fejj> right
<fejj> that's the charset for the particular mime part
<charles> To convert that text to utf8 for GtkTextView, I should _not_ use
          g_locale_to_utf8, because it converts from the wrong charset,
          right?
<fejj> right
<fejj> you want to convert using the charset specified in the mime part
       header as the base
<fejj> s/base/source charset
<fejj> dest charset being UTF-8
<fejj> you may also want to get the content-object from the mime-part
       and then write that to a filtered stream that will convert from
       src charset to UTF-8
<fejj> this will cut down a lot on memory usage
<fejj> since it won't have to equivalently strdup the message
<charles> so I want to go through g_mime_iconv() rather than g_convert()
          for these, right?
<fejj> for mime-part content, yes
<charles> (or the filter, which goes through g_mime_iconv())
<fejj> right