Re: hypermail encoding problems(B

From: Mike FABIAN(B <mfabian_at_suse.de_at_hypermail-project.org>
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 15:22:34 +0200
Message-ID: <s3tr7dhlpb9.fsf_at_magellan.suse.de>


Daigo Matsubara <daigo_at_w3.org> $B$5$s$O=q$-$^$7$?(B:

> I had implemented roughly, it is working on my testbed.
>
> My strategy is:
>
> 1) convert every headers to UTF-8 at first. I modified
> mdecodeRFC2047() to do it.
>
> 2) call print_main_header() with UTF-8 charset, then Hypermail outputs
> indexes in UTF-8.
>
> 3) in each message, each references (subjects of other messages in
> thread) are encoded in numeric reference. message body is not
> converted to UTF-8.
>
> I'm still considering about 3). I was suggested by I18N experts to
> make everything in UTF-8, but I'm wondering about that because we
> still have a lot of software which is not UTF-8 friendly.

In my experience, it is not much of a problem anymore, all common browsers seem to support UTF-8 well enough.

> But, at least, it solves encoding issue you mentioned, I think.

> I'm trying to show my code ASAP to have review. Ideas/thoughts are
> welcome.

Yes, please post your code. I'd like to try it as well.

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Mike FABIAN   <mfabian_at_suse.de>   http://www.suse.de/~mfabian
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