[haiku-development] Re: Working on Haiku's Mail app

Jorge G. Mare wrote on Mon, 30 Nov 2009 11:33:33 -0800:
> When reading incoming emails, the ability to change the encoding is 
> essential, as not all emails are always properly formatted, and forcing 
> a different encoding is the only way to display such emails properly. 
> But since this does not happen that often, moving it to a menu instead 
> would not be much of an inconvenience.

Slashdot digests sometimes need manual intervention to get some
characters to show up, since the contents come from quite a few
different sources / encodings and the overall digest encoding only
matches some of them.

> When sending emails, this menu is actually very convenient [...]

I have mine defaulted to ASCII for sending.  When it complains about
invalid characters, I can either fix the character or switch to
UTF-8 or Latin-1.

So, it doesn't have to be there all the time, it could be a menu item
rather than a drop-down list for me.  But it has to be somewhere.

- Alex

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