[haiku-bugs] Re: [Haiku] #8147: New message should not default to CP1252
- From: "rq" <trac@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 15:42:31 -0000
#8147: New message should not default to CP1252
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Reporter: rq | Owner: czeidler
Type: bug | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: R1
Component: Applications/Mail | Version: R1/Development
Resolution: | Keywords:
Blocked By: | Blocking:
Has a Patch: 0 | Platform: All
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Comment (by rq):
Replying to [comment:7 bonefish]:
> Replying to [comment:2 siarzhuk]:
> > What if Mail guesses the encoding from the current locale settings?
>
> Unless I'm much mistaken the locale settings don't contain an encoding.
Since Haiku consistently uses UTF-8, there's no need to.
I think the charset can be made localizable for this particular
application though.
> Other than that, whatever is set in the encoding combo box, if the user
types something that can't be encoded using this character set, Mail
should automatically use a character set that can (e.g. UTF-8).
This is what Thunderbird does, by the way.
> I assume rq has noticed that it doesn't. Hence I set the ticket type to
bug. If it does, the ticket is invalid.
Mail warns the user about unencodable characters and allows to either send
the message and let Mail replace them with substitutes, or to cancel
sending and choose a different character set or edit the message.
> On a general note, I really doubt that it makes any sense to allow the
user to choose a character set these days.
It could stay as a preference in the prefs dialog. But showing it in both
Read and Write windows is way too geeky, IMO.
Should I file separate bugs asking for those features?
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Ticket URL: <http://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/8147#comment:9>
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