[jira] [Commented] (MIME4J-218) Content-Type Fallback Character Set

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ASF GitHub Bot commented on MIME4J-218:
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GitHub user WolfgangFahl opened a pull request:

    https://github.com/apache/james-mime4j/pull/1

    fix for MIME4J-218

    fixes https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MIME4J-218


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    $ git pull https://github.com/WolfgangFahl/james-mime4j trunk

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    https://github.com/apache/james-mime4j/pull/1.patch

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commit 5a9db5480ab20d970ed6c9826f04262e15bfff4d
Author: Wolfgang Fahl <wf...@bitplan.com>
Date:   2014-09-29T18:45:16Z

    adds proposed patch for https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MIME4J-218

commit aaf3ae00180e7e23d43b179e2c3a11220624dad6
Author: Wolfgang Fahl <wf...@bitplan.com>
Date:   2014-10-02T12:31:29Z

    improves lenient behaviour

commit e2835e1c7d63ce17aa24a2930324d65d2bed033d
Author: Wolfgang Fahl <wf...@bitplan.com>
Date:   2014-10-02T17:26:47Z

    adds lenient test

commit 907f1352572d198de6a611c236f71578480135c5
Author: Wolfgang Fahl <wf...@bitplan.com>
Date:   2014-10-02T17:39:25Z

    fix superfluous blanks

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> Content-Type Fallback Character Set
> -----------------------------------
>
>                 Key: MIME4J-218
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MIME4J-218
>             Project: James Mime4j
>          Issue Type: Bug
>    Affects Versions: 0.7.2
>            Reporter: Rickard Ekeroth
>             Fix For: 0.8.0
>
>
> Would it be possible to add a feature that would allow for specifying a fallback character set to use when the character set in a 'Content-Type' header is not recognized by Java? In the old 0.6.2 version, that we used before, the character set 'ISO-8859-1' was used as a fallback but in the 0.7.2 version an UnsupportedEncodingException is thrown when the parser encounters an unknown character set in a Content-Type header.
> Here is the relevant part of the exception stack trace:
> Caused by: java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException: x-user-defined
> at sun.nio.cs.StreamDecoder.forInputStreamReader(StreamDecoder.java:52)
> at java.io.InputStreamReader.<init>(InputStreamReader.java:83)
> at org.apache.james.mime4j.message.BasicTextBody.getReader(BasicTextBody.java:49)
> We receive, parse and archive a vast number of confidential e-mail messages (for which we use Mime4J) and every now and then we get an e-mail message that contains a non-standard character encoding name (in this case 'x-user-defined'). With the old (0.6) Mime4J version we were still able to parse and read most of those e-mail messages because of the fallback character set in the parser.
> I can unfortunately not post the entire message here but the content-type header that caused the above exception looks like this:
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="x-user-defined" 



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