Solutions for the charset issue

[Boris 'pi' Piwinger]

Matthias Andree wrote:

>> > Is there a flex-like tool that can deal with UTF-8?
>> 
>> How about recode? I don't know if it can be used here, though.
> 
> I never bothered to look at the recode and iconv libraries. Not sure
> which is better.

I just heard that tin internally works with UCS-4. And it seems to
work;-) Maybe this is something to look at.

>> Yes, slower, but *much* stronger. I don't think, we need full MIME
>> support. Understanding QP is pretty simple. Base64 isn't hard either,
>> but might be delayed a bit longer I think. That should be it.
> 
> We need to tell MIME parts apart, because each can have its own
> character set.

True. Similar for MIME word in the header.

pi