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authorHeiko Schlittermann (HS12-RIPE) <hs@schlittermann.de>2015-11-30 11:36:51 +0100
committerHeiko Schlittermann (HS12-RIPE) <hs@schlittermann.de>2015-11-30 11:39:25 +0100
commit1459a03dd783ad1eef72bc4fce93e84e83fc9238 (patch)
tree7fd9a4b572f2f02e1ccdbeb067aa0ebea1d7b3e1 /doc/doc-docbook
parent9042106b5116fcc621e1c720460a42896011c1cd (diff)
Docs: De-clarify the rfc2047 default charset
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/doc-docbook')
-rw-r--r--doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt6
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt b/doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt
index d5cd22ef7..af41e4493 100644
--- a/doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt
+++ b/doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt
@@ -1860,7 +1860,7 @@ described RFC 2047. This makes it possible to transmit characters that are not
in the ASCII character set, and to label them as being in a particular
character set. When Exim is inspecting header lines by means of the &%$h_%&
mechanism, it decodes them, and translates them into a specified character set
-(default ISO-8859-1). The translation is possible only if the operating system
+(default is set at build time). The translation is possible only if the operating system
supports the &[iconv()]& function.
However, some of the operating systems that supply &[iconv()]& do not support
@@ -10328,7 +10328,7 @@ f.7.2.0.0.0.0.c.d.c.b.a.1.0.0.0.9.0.0.0.2.4.c.0.8.b.d.0.1.0.0.2
This operator encodes text according to the rules of RFC 2047. This is an
encoding that is used in header lines to encode non-ASCII characters. It is
assumed that the input string is in the encoding specified by the
-&%headers_charset%& option, which defaults to ISO-8859-1. If the string
+&%headers_charset%& option, which gets its default at build time. If the string
contains only characters in the range 33&--126, and no instances of the
characters
.code
@@ -24357,7 +24357,7 @@ replaced, not just the working part. The replacement must be a complete RFC
2822 address, including the angle brackets if necessary. If text outside angle
brackets contains a character whose value is greater than 126 or less than 32
(except for tab), the text is encoded according to RFC 2047. The character set
-is taken from &%headers_charset%&, which defaults to ISO-8859-1.
+is taken from &%headers_charset%&, which gets its default at build time.
When the &"w"& flag is set on a rule that causes an envelope address to be
rewritten, all but the working part of the replacement address is discarded.