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Pick the part to render from multipart/alternative: charset default and case · case 05

Parts without a charset parameter, or with an upper-case charset name, are treated as unrenderable.

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Case contract

Alternatives are ordered by increasing fidelity, so the LAST part whose effective type is in `supported` wins. A multipart/related alternative counts as its root type: the child whose cid equals the start parameter (which carries angle brackets, cids are stored bare) or else the first child. A text/* part is only renderable when its charset (default us-ascii, case-insensitive) is us-ascii, utf-8 or iso-8859-1. With nothing renderable the first part is shown as a fallback. Result {index, type, fallback}.

Why this case matters

Choosing the wrong alternative shows raw markup, a degraded body or an unreadable charset to the reader.

One recorded failure

Sample boundary fixture

This sample comes from the broken implementation of a controlled reproducer.

Boundary fixture	Actual	Expected	Outcome
richest supported last	`{"fallback": true, "index": 0, "type": "text/plain"}`	`{"fallback": false, "index": 2, "type": "text/x-amp-html"}`	Failed

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