nhottanscp Reporter
	Description • 24 years ago

Currently, we are sending text/plain attachment with no charset specification.
Those are likely to be in a OS file system charset but we wants to avoid putting
a wrong charset.
So I am proposing to have a dialog when the user double clicks an attachment.
That may show information about the attachment like MIME type or transfer
encoding type. We can put a charset information there and let the user to change it.

The options would be "none" as a default, "file system charset", or "choose from
the list".

	Koike Kazuhiko
	Comment 1 • 24 years ago

This can be merged into bug 66915.

	Katsuhiko Momoi
	Comment 2 • 24 years ago

Is there a bug to use the system default charset 
and insert that value into the charset parameter?
If not, we can use this bug for that and leave the
UI part to the other bug. 

	nhottanscp Reporter
	Comment 3 • 24 years ago

I was thinking to provide the option of using file system charset as part of the
UI. Or is it better to separate it as a global preference?

	Aleksey Nogin
	Comment 4 • 21 years ago

*** Bug 166606 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

	Mike Cowperthwaite
	Comment 5 • 21 years ago

See also bug 192262.

	Garth Wallace
	Comment 6 • 21 years ago

I think it'd be better as an option in the attachment right-click menu. I seem
to recall that there is work being done on adding option to set the MIME type
and content-disposition from the right-click menu, so it would fit right in. I
would expect double-clicking to open the attachment (as a preview), if anything.

	Mike Cowperthwaite
	Comment 7 • 21 years ago

I agree about right-click vs. double-click; the context menu should provide a 
Properties item, bringing up a dialog from which all the settable parameters for 
the attachment could be changed. Again, ref bug 192262.

	Bjoern Voigt
	Comment 8 • 19 years ago

I also think that a charset option for attachments would be great. Mozilla/Seamonkey displays plain/text attachment right if the charset for this messages is ok. But it's a difficult hack to change the charset for attachments. (I sent the message with a text/plain attachment over a local sendmail server. In sendmail's queue I edit the message, change the charset and run sendmail's queue.)