[Mailman-Users] A scrubber issue

[Todd Zullinger]

I wrote:
> Tokio Kikuchi wrote:
[...]
>> But as to the default charset is 'us-ascii' problem, if we put the
>> part together the parts, some language text (like japanese) become
>> irreversibly unreadable.  It is safe to keep it in a separate file
>> if you can't archive the whole message in multipart like in
>> Pipermail.
> 
> Okay, that's understandable.

Just another thought (because I realize now that I don't understand
this as well as I thought at first :)...

Are you saying there are messages which would lack a charset in a
content-type header and include Japanese text?  I wouldn't think they
would be valid if they didn't.  But I may not understand the types of
message structures you mean.

If the email parsing were to assume that lacking a content-type header
the part should be assumed to be text/plain and us-ascii, would this
break valid messages or only invalid ones (not that invalid ones could
necessarily be ignored, particularly if they were a significant
portion of the messages seen in reality :).

I'd be grateful if you could enlighten me on this.

Thanks,

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