Re: [Exim] weird From: line with diacritics

On exim-users Petr Cech wrote:
>On Thu, Apr 20, 2000 at 01:14:17PM +0100 , Philip Hazel wrote:
>> However, to escape like "=?iso-8859-2?Q?Petr_=C8ech?="
>> Exim would need to know what the character code was. How can it find
>> that out?
>
>That's the hard part. It could be either system configurable, because the
>message must originate on localhost or it could be escaped using some general
>approach.

I should think that in 99% of cases the correct charset will be
found without difficulty in a Content-Type header a bit later
on ...

If it isn't then the sender has only himself to blame if the MTA
encodes it any way it chooses, such as a system-wide default.

Urgh ... of course in a MIME message, the Content-Type header
could be in the first attachment, which means going down into
the message body ... Yuck.