Re: [siesta-dev] encoding issue with other maliing list software

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From: Richard Clamp
Subject: Re: [siesta-dev] encoding issue with other maliing list software
Date: 17:39 on 09 Sep 2003
On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 10:02:40PM +0300, Gabor Szabo wrote:
> 
> On the israeli linux mailing list we just encountered this issue.
> I am sending this in only in order to note that it would be good if
> Siesta, or the evil advertiser plug-in would deal with all the
> encodings correctly.  At some point in its life.

Hmm, yes.  Two quick confessions.  I don't understand mail encodings.
I don't understand charsets either.  

I do get the gist of the problem though.

It looks like to do things properly we'll need something like
Email::MIME so that it will decode the message body into utf-8 or
similar, at which point we can use regular perl to concat the
obnoxious advertising in, and then rely on the other end to re-encode
the message when it presents it to the MTA for delivery.

Sadly the critical path there is the "something like Email::MIME"
part, as the last I remember it doesn't exist outside of Simon's CVS
repository and only copes with single-part mime.


> -- Gabor
> ps. I am back from my vacation and once I can clean my desk a bit
> I'll upload the new bundle and invest some energy in Siesta as well.

Excellent, I look forward to the upload.

-- 
Richard Clamp <richardc@xxxxxxxxx.xxx>

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