> On Oct 1, 2017, at 10:26 PM, Ørjan Johansen <oer...@nvg.ntnu.no> wrote:
> 
> Finding out my sending charset was surprisingly awkward because it's only 
> given as a multipart header (for some reason it uses multipart format even 
> though there is only one part), not a header of the email itself. Its format 
> in the raw mailbox file looks like
> 
> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE
> 
> *Sigh*, I think these days, cutting and pasting ought to convert via Unicode 
> to work properly.

This, right here, is why my approach to message storage is to store the full 
MIME blob, rather than trying to extract the text. That any software ever 
correctly displays this is a minor miracle.

-o

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