12 messages in net.sourceforge.lists.courier-users[courier-users] Re: sqwebmail 2002121...
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Subject:[courier-users] Re: sqwebmail 20021212 observationsActions...
From:Sam Varshavchik (mrs@courier-mta.com)
Date:Dec 20, 2002 7:14:50 pm
List:net.sourceforge.lists.courier-users

Matthias Andree writes:

2. I also observed with CHARSET at iso-8859-1 that sqwebmail would happily emit illegal characters, i. e. it shipped \200 in an iso-8859-1 mail where I entered a ¬ (EURO currency symbol) character in the web form. \200 is invalid in iso-8859-1 and should be

Patient: Doctor, it hurts when I do this.

Doctor: Well, don't do that, then.

rejected. \200 happens to be the EUR symbol in windows-1252 though, so many web browsers will still emit this. Outlook Express is also notorious for this bug -- it should declare windows-1252[*] instead of iso-8859-1 when \200 is supposed to mean EUR symbol.

If you want to get anal: this is your browser's bug.

sqwebmail sends an html form, with the character set set to iso-8859-1. I can turn this around and tell you that your browser should not allow an illegal iso-8859-1 character to be entered into an iso-8859-1 HTML form.