Encodings

[Patrick Totzke]

Hi Uwe,

On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 09:04:47AM +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> > But as Carl sais, we cannot guarantee that a tag is utf8 encoded anyway.
> I think it would be right to enforce that tags are utf-8 encoded.
> Otherwise the users get strange results if they change their locale.

I agree that it would be very nice indeed if it was safe to assume
all tags are utf-8. But i also see that it's a bit of an effort
to ensure this as all UI's would have to explicitly recode
stuff that isn't utf-8.
It seems to be a conciously made design decision to allow
other encodings for tags, which is up for discussion f course.
All I'm saying is that the bindings should conform. And if it's 
not safe to assume utf-8 here, we shouldn't decode as such.

I'm unsure what happens in all the new get_part() parts of the api.
If there, all mimepart-text is also returned as utf-8, it would only
be consistant to bend tag encodings to utf-8 also. But I doubt thats the case.
Can anyone clarify this?
/Patrick
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