[Mailman-Users] accents in subjects
Nigel Metheringham
Nigel.Metheringham at VData.co.uk
Fri Feb 25 16:45:15 CET 2000
fil at bok.net said:
> However it's not only a question of 'Réf.' but of any
> accentuated Subject: when it comes to the digest issue. So mailman is
> also a little faulty here.
Not really. You cannot have 8 bit characters in header lines - the
character set etc applies to the body, so that subject is broken to
start with.
[from previous message]
> Usually it get morphed from
> Réf. : confirmation of subscription - request 170967
> into something like
> =?iso-8859-1?Q?R=E9f._:_confirmation_of_subscription_--_request_170967?=
so some MTA is converting the broken subject into some form of MIMEish
encapsulation - basically coping with a broken message by applying a
semi-broken workaround.
> So I guess mailman should, before doing anything, convert these back
> to ascii.
not sure you want mailman to start doing conversions around other
people's breakage. One possibility might be to make the subject line
have more of a key in it hopefully picked to not have char set
implications - say that kast part be [[CONFIRM#170967]] and just look
for that style tag ignoring everything else in the line - making sure
that the tags chosen don't get hit by those 8 bit conversion problems.
Nigel.
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