Re: Japanese characters in attachments?

[Earl Hood <earl@earlhood.com>]

On February 3, 2003 at 10:25, Javi Lavandeira wrote:

> I did, but it didn't work. I had to use Shift_JIS for everything. I
> mean, the body of the messages is converted to Unicode correctly, but
> not the attachments. The problem here is that the message bodies are
> encoded using ISO-2022-JP, while filenames are encoded in Shift_JIS.
> MHonArc converted the ISO-2022-JP body to Unicode, and the Shift_JIS
> filenames to HTML entities, so if I chose to use Unicode in my browser I
> could read the message, but not the filename, and if I chose Shift_JIS I
> could read the file names, but not the messages.

Please provide me with an example message that illustrates this
case.  Note: if the filename is in Shift_JIS, but not properly
encoded according to RFC 2047 (e.g. =?Shift_JIS?B?...?=) then
there is probably little that MHonArc can do since the message
is MIME non-compliant.

There are some new features coming in v2.6.0 to help address
this problem, but it does depending on how non-conformant the
message is.

> > If not, could you provide me (via private mail) an example
> > message that illustrates the problem.  Hmmm, thinking about, could
> > you provide me an example message even if utf-8-encode works for
> > you.  It may help me determine if I have to make any changes in
> > how extracted header information is handled.
> 
> Hmmm, we have the archive running already and I prefer not to touch it.
> I'll install MHonArc later in my own server at home
> (http://www.ag0ny.com) and I'll do some testing with my mailinglist
> archives.

The snapshot versions should be quite stable since I've been running
them for awhile, but it is wise to test things out before using
in production.

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technical, developement related topics and providing feedback on
snapshot versions.

--ewh

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