hypermail encoding problems(B

From: Mike FABIAN(B <mfabian_at_suse.de_at_hypermail-project.org>
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 19:27:19 +0200
Message-ID: <s3tmzo9lbpk.fsf_at_magellan.suse.de>

Hypermail 2.1.8 has many problems with mail archives when the archive contains mails with different subject encodings.

For example, see

http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-linux-ja/2005-Jul/

You can see that the subjects of the first 5 mails on that page are displayed correctly (in UTF-8). But from the 6th mail on, all subjects are garbled. This is because the encoding of the subjects of these mails is ISO-2022-JP.

That means, the .html page produced contains text with two different encodings which cannot work.

You can see that if you switch the encoding of your browser manually from UTF-8 to ISO-2022-JP and back. When using UTF-8, you see the subjects at the top correctly, when using ISO-2022-JP, you see the mails at the bottom correctly. But never both.

I think the best fix is to improve hypermail to convert all the output to UTF-8 *always*. That is the only possibility to get a single target encoding for index.html, date.html, etc. even if many different encodings are used in the subjects of the original mails.

Are there any plans to add such support for UTF-8 to hypermail in the near future?

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