[fetchmail-devel] Re: BUG: RFC violations by translated mails

[Graham W. <bo...@de...>]

On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 07:19:28PM +0200, Matthias Andree wrote:
> #1 request transliteration from translators.  This won't work for
>    languages that don't use a Latin character set but, for instance,
>    Cyrillic, Greek or Thai to name just three. It works for some
>    characters, those I know:
> 
>    ä=ae, ö=oe, ü=ue, ß=ss (sz in special cases when the preceding vowel
>    is long and ss would be ambiguous), æ=ae, å=aa, ø=oe, œ=oe, ç=c
> 
> #2 request that national characters be pre-encoded as RFC-2047 (for the
>    Subject) or as quoted-printable for the body. Major hassle for the
>    translators.
> 
> #3 let fetchmail do proper MIME encoding of Subject and body.

#4  Is it possible to only send messages in English using US-ASCII. I
    know that is probably unfair to a lot of our users, but it really
    seems like the cleanest solution to me.

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