[Zope-CMF] Re: [dev] email_charset: a small proposal

yuppie y.2006_ at wcm-solutions.de
Fri Oct 13 09:45:08 EDT 2006


Jens Vagelpohl wrote:
>> None I'm aware of. But you can't change the default_charset easily 
>> because it describes the encoding of persistent data. The email 
>> encoding is just an output format that can be changed at any time.
>>
>> The setting can be used for other emails as well, so I don't think 
>> it's overkill to have an extra property for that.
> 
> Well, I'm not going to protest, but I still don't see a good reason for 
> another setting. Why would you even want to change email encoding at 
> random times?

Some people still use email clients that don't support utf-8. So you 
might have a policy to send iso-8859-1 emails even if your content is 
utf-8 encoded. At a later point you might want to change that policy.

Cheers, Yuppie



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