[issue10284] Exception raised when decoding NNTP newsgroup descriptions

[Julien ÉLIE]

Julien ÉLIE <julien at trigofacile.com> added the comment:

> Unless I'm mistaken, Content-Type should only apply to the body, not the
> headers.  Either the headers use UTF-8 (RFC 3977), or they should be
> MIME-encoded.  Everything else is undecodable.

Yes, of course.  Such articles are not RFC-compliant.  You're not mistaken when you mention that the Content-Type: header field applies to the body.
I was just answering about how the encoding could be guessed.

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