[Mageia-webteam] [Bug 9476] bugs.mageia.org mailing list puts XX in place of accented characters in sender field

Sun Mar 24 05:51:52 CET 2013

https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9476
+
+--- Comment #5 from andré blais <andre999mga at laposte.net> ---
+I see what is happening :
+
+The bugs.mageia.org list is encoding the headings as utf-8, without specifying
+the encoding, and laposte.net is replacing the utf-8 code outside the ascii
+range with X.  So those using laposte.net see X in place of accents.
+
+Other email servers are not replacing the utf-8 encoding, so email agents such
+as thunderbird or kmail are able to correctly display the utf-8.
+
+The error messages that Marja sees seem to be generated by Mageia, and are
+passed by laposte.net because they aren't in the sender field.
+(I see them in the source as well)
+
+Other mageia mailing lists use encoding as follows :
+
+acute accent in dev list :
+From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Pierre-Malo_Deni=E9lou?= <pierre-malo.denielou at rhul.ac.uk>
+
+chinese characters in dev list :
+From: =?GB2312?B?zfW17r34?= <1132321739qq at gmail.com>
+
+arabic letters in discuss list :
+From: =?windows-1256?B?x+Hj08fh4yDH4ePTx+HjyQ==?=
+    <almusalimalmusalimah at gmail.com>
+
+The encoding is explicitly specified, so laposte.net accepts it and properly
+displays the accented characters
+
+So I expect that the solution is to specify utf-8 encoding if it applies ?
+
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