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C++ predicting wrong charset

Jul 20 '16 at 14:07

Hi guys, I'm having some issues when getting an email without the charset specified in the content-type header. The charset is being predicted as "charset="iso-8859-1"" when, for this particular email (containing german characters), it should be utf-8.

This happens by using CkEamil::getMime() (I really need to use this method to later process)

-Is there a way to get the raw charset ? (the one without the predicted charset) -can we distingwish if it was predicted ?

Thx !

Answer

Without seeing actual data (the MIME) that causes the problem, it's impossible to know what can be done..

Answer

Ok, first of all thanks for answer

This is the original as I see it on GMail by "seeing original option". (No charset) The actual body text is some german characters: "äöü € ÄÖÜ German ñÑ Áé£æ"

Return-Path: <velocityseba@gmail.com>
Received: from VPUY-SGOMEZ.bellevue.velocitypartners.net (r201-217-135-132.ir-static.anteldata.net.uy. [201.217.135.132])
        by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id n16sm591287vkd.2.2016.07.20.10.47.28
        for <velocityseba@gmail.com>
        (version=TLS1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128/128);
        Wed, 20 Jul 2016 10:47:28 -0700 (PDT)
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2016 14:47:14 -0300
From: FrontRange Solutions Emplo <velocityseba@gmail.com>
Subject: ��� � ��� German �� ����
To: Batman <velocityseba@gmail.com>
Message-ID: <SjhVUVpLQSM+NVdXIFc8MTMxMjgwNTY4MQ@VPUY-SGOMEZ>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Organization: VP
X-Mailer: GoldMine [2013.1.0.210]
X-GM-LinkAccnt: 416C49836BA1B373699993A2416B71A93D656577B18493A2
Content-Type: text/plain
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

��� � ��� German �� ����

And this is the Mime I get from chilkat (Charset predicted as iso-8859-1)

Return-Path: <velocityseba@gmail.com>
Received: from VPUY-SGOMEZ.bellevue.velocitypartners.net (r201-217-135-132.ir-static.anteldata.net.uy. [201.217.135.132])       by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id n16sm591287vkd.2.2016.07.20.10.47.28       for <velocityseba@gmail.com>       (version=TLS1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128/128);
           Wed, 20 Jul 2016 10:47:28 -0700 (PDT)
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2016 14:47:14 -0300
From: FrontRange Solutions Emplo <velocityseba@gmail.com>
Subject: =?windows-1252?Q?=E4=F6=FC_=80_=C4=D6=DC_German_=F1=D1_=C1=E9=A3=E6?=
To: Batman <velocityseba@gmail.com>
Message-ID: <SjhVUVpLQSM+NVdXIFc8MTMxMjgwNTY4MQ@VPUY-SGOMEZ>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Organization: VP
X-Mailer: GoldMine [2013.1.0.210]
X-GM-LinkAccnt: 416C49836BA1B373699993A2416B71A93D656577B18493A2
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
ckx-imap-uid: 12044
ckx-imap-isUid: YES
ckx-imap-seen: NO
ckx-imap-answered: NO
ckx-imap-deleted: NO
ckx-imap-flagged: NO
ckx-imap-draft: NO
Content-Type: text/plain;
     charset="iso-8859-1"

äöü € ÄÖÜ German ñÑ Áé£æ