clutch (was: Decoding in XXI Cent)

[Mark A. Mandel]

Chris Waigl wrote:

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In a nutshell, the information about what character set / encoding a
message is in is contained in one of the message headers. Now the
problem arises where to put the information about the charset of message
headers themselves: when the mail application reads the headers, it
doesn't yet have this information at its disposal. So this ugly clutch
is what people came up with.

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I assume that "clutch" here is what American technogeeks call a /klu:dZ/,
usually spelled "kludge" even though it rhymes with "stooge", not with
"fudge" /f^dZ/.

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