Re: charset=ks_c-5601_1987

[David Starner <starner@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 08:34:27PM +0100, Erika Pacholleck wrote:
> ------=_NextPart_000_0007_01C0F27A.93A50C00
> Content-Type: text/plain;
> 	charset="ks_c_5601-1987"
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
[...]
> Normally I pipe those mails through /dev/null which will
> keep my eyes unhurt but that obviously does not clear
> whether it is me or the sender who is not able to use
> proper charsets in MUAs ;)

The complete list of mail-legal charsets is at <http://www.iana.org>
(Proctocol numbers, charsets). As you can see, ks_c_5601-1987 is
registered, and it's Korean. A description is available in RFC 1345.

While it is legal, it's probably not something that you need to worry
about. In a discussion of spam, a Korean Debian maintainer recommended
dropping all messages using this charset; according to him, any real
Korean mail comes with a different charset, usually ISO-2022-KR (IIRC).
I've been redirecting mail with this charset to a spam folder for a
while, and never found something that looked misdirected due to that,
and a number of things that it caught.

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