Bausch, Jean wrote:
I have now found who swallows the Umlauts in message bodies:
I had inserted a 'fmt -s -w 80' in the mail aliases. Unfortunately on Solaris 7 this command erases the Umlauts.
I have now found who swallows the Umlauts in message bodies:
I had inserted a 'fmt -s -w 80' in the mail aliases. Unfortunately on Solaris 7 this command erases the Umlauts.
LANG=de_DE fmt -s -w 80
to make sure Solaris can handle the 8 bit characters. But this assumes
every email you put through will be in iso-8859-1, which is increasingly
not true in today's international world.
If you don't specify a LANG, or specify the wrong one, fmt doesn't know
what character set the input file is in, and if it's a multibyte
character set (UTF-8, UTF-16, or any Japanese/Chinese/Korean character
set) it might end up splitting a character between bytes when it inserts
a newline. So they do the "safe" thing and strip all 8-bit characters
when LANG is not set.
Hence my next question:
Is there an option in mailman 2.1.2 to autowrap the messages after 80 characters or so?
I don't think there's really a safe way to do this. It would certainlyIs there an option in mailman 2.1.2 to autowrap the messages after 80 characters or so?
screw up signatures on emails.
All MIME emails are required to be 76 characters or less per line; you
could write a Handler (look at Mailman/Handlers/Decorate.py for an
example in the Mailman source code) to take any non-MIME emails and
automatically make them a single text/plain attachment encoded with
quoted-printable, but you'll need to be careful about character set
issues for the UTF-8 and CJK users.
The email.Message and email.Charset modules make this really easy; all
the work is already done for you.
Ben
