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

Jens Vagelpohl jens at dataflake.org
Fri Oct 13 09:13:32 EDT 2006


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On 12 Oct 2006, at 13:56, yuppie wrote:

> Jens Vagelpohl wrote:
>>> I'd like to add an 'email_charset' property to the site (making  
>>> it possible to use e.g. iso-8859-1 for emails and utf-8 for site  
>>> content) and to fix the header encoding.
>> Are there specific problems using the same encoding for email that  
>> is used for the site (apart from any other bugs that you mention)?
>
> 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?

jens


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