Issue with "Add Text Of Doc" feature

Julian Field MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Fri May 15 10:14:28 IST 2009



On 14/05/2009 17:41, Mark Sapiro wrote:
> Mark Sapiro wrote:
>
>    
>> I have been experimenting with the "Add Text Of Doc" feature. The issue
>> I have come across is the output of antiword is in my case UTF-8
>> encoded (in the absense of a specific mapping provided to antiword,
>> it's locale dependent), but the plain text attachment added by
>> MailScanner doesn't specify a charset in its Content-Type.
>>
>> It would be nice if you could grok
That word doesn't appear in my Oxford dictionary...
>>   the encoding from the system locale
>> and specify it, or barring that, provide a config option to set it.
>>      
Any idea how to get it from the Locale? Otherwise I'll just have to let 
you set it.
>
> Please note, in case it wasn't clear, the current behavior is a real
> problem. UTF-8 encoded data are being sent in a text/plain part with
> implicit charset us-ascii resulting in data being displayed in MUAs
> like the following:
>
>                              Lani Waller Presents
>                              “A Steelheader’s Way”
>
> “A Steelheader’s Way” is a presentation on the principles,
> tactics,
> techniques and philosophy of trophy steelhead fishing based on Lani’s
> new
> book of the same title.  This personal look will include the “common
> elements of the endeavor” ...
>
>    

Jules

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