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Betterbird is a fork of Mozilla Thunderbird. Here are the patches that provide all the goodness.
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Restore support for forcing message charset #178

Closed eyalroz closed 1 year ago

eyalroz commented 1 year ago

With BMO bug 1713786, TB stopped allowing overriding the message charset, claiming that their auto-detection is absolutely perfect and flawless.

Well, it isn't. Not to mention how a message is not necessarily limited to content in a single charset. And thus, my extension - BiDi Mail UI - is broken in its charset misdetection correction capability since TB v91.

I am assuming that the underlying ability was not really sabotaged all the way. If that's the case - that could help my extension fix a bunch of charset issues which currently it is not able to - and it would only be able to do that with BetterBird :-)

Caveat: The prevalence of charset issue is now relatively low, and is decreasing with time (and wider adoption of UTF charsets).

Betterbird commented 1 year ago

I am assuming that the underlying ability was not really sabotaged all the way.

Sadly a wrong assumption. The so-called "mail charset" that you could set has been totally removed, all that happens now is that some "auto-detect" flag is passed down to the lower layers.

Without a huge effort that can't be reinstated.