| Subject: | UTF-8 and unicode data with MIME::Lite |
| Date: | Tue, 27 Feb 2007 08:45:07 +0100 |
| To: | bug-MIME-Lite [...] rt.cpan.org |
| From: | "Adrian Smith" <adrian.m.smith [...] gmail.com> |
Hello,
I think MIME::Lite predates Perl 5.8 which supports Unicode and UTF-8.
But it's easy to get MIME::Lite to work with Unicode bodies and
subjects.
To attach a plain text part to a message, with a string which contains
unicode characters, use:
$msg->attach(
Type => 'text/plain; charset=UTF-8',
Data => encode("utf8", $utf8string),
);
To set the subject of a mail from a string containing unicode characters, use:
use MIME::Base64;
my $msg = MIME::Lite->new(
...
Subject => "=?UTF-8?B?" .
encode_base64(encode("utf8", $subj), "") . "?=",
...
);
Note that the above methods also work even if the strings do not
contain unicode characters, or do not have the UTF-8 bit set.
It would be better to change MIME::Lite such that subject and data
strings are accepted and the above code happens inside MIME::Lite.
Cheers, Adrian
--
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