Re: mhonarc -scan producing unwanted output for iso-8859-1 special characters

[Earl Hood <earl@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On February 10, 2005 at 21:05, Michael de Beer wrote:

> However, when I do
>   shell> mhonarc -quiet -nolock -reverse -scan -outdir www/2005/02
> 
> It produces subject lines like
>   =?iso-8859-1?q?Norwegischer_Bischof_Gunnar_J=2E_St=E5lsett_feier?=
> 
> That is not what I want -- I want it to produce the subject like the
> mhonarc output pages.  Is there a
>  -  switch in mhonarc or 
>  -  a patch to mhonarc or 
>  -  a conversion utility or 
>  -  a perl library function
> that will produce/convert the text into what I want?

-scan is for terminal-based examination of archive contents.  It
does not invoke CHARSETCONVERTERS since CHARSETCONVERTERS is designed
for conversion to HTML, not plain text.

Will you provide more information on how you utilize -scan output?
It may help in determining what the best solution to your problem is.

BTW, if iso-8859-1 is the default encoding for the messages you
archive, you may want to look at the DECODEHEADS resource.  You could
instruct mhonarc to decode the non-ASCII encoded text before storing
the data in the archive.  Therefore, when doing -scan, the non-encoded
form the text will be shown.

--ewh