On Sunday, February 15, 2009, 11:19:17 PM, Makoev Alan wrote:
> So my question is: Is it just due
> to developers' time shortage, or there are some reasons for
> avoiding using the charset indicated in the header field as a
> source charset for normalization? 

Perhaps spammers set that field deceptively or incorrectly some
of the time or don't set it at all other times, so that an
attempt to automatically detect the character set is useful in
some cases?  This is just a guess on my part however.

Cheers,

Jeff C.
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