Bug #6488 for activitymail: a charset parameter for sending non-ascii commit messages

Wed Jun 02 13:05:47 2004 Guest - Ticket created

Subject:

a charset parameter for sending non-ascii commit messages

When taking part in projects where most developers are non-English, it is common that commit messages are written in a language which uses non-Ascii characters (e.g. French accents in French). For those characters to be displayed properly in the e-mail client, you need to include a charset parameter in the e-mail headers. For example: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Many charsets preserve ascii characters while allowing other characters to be displayed too. A reasonable default value for this parameter would be iso-8859-1 or iso-8859-15 (handles most west-european languages).

Thu Jun 17 21:20:21 2004 dwheeler [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'

Thu Jun 17 21:20:43 2004 dwheeler [...] cpan.org - Given to DWHEELER

Fri Sep 10 13:44:36 2004 dwheeler [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

Hrm. How might one deterimine what character set to use for attachments? Just use the same value provided by this new parameter? I would be inclined to make the default utf-8, myself.

Sat Sep 11 10:36:05 2004 Guest - Correspondence added

From:

pitrou [...] free.fr

[DWHEELER - Fri Sep 10 13:44:36 2004]: Show quoted text

> Hrm. How might one deterimine what character set to use for > attachments? Just use the same > value provided by this new parameter?

Probably, or maybe add another parameter. Show quoted text

> I would be inclined to make the default utf-8, myself.

Good idea. The important thing is to have a parameter anyway ;) Antoine (I'm the bug submitter btw).

Tue Apr 04 20:22:20 2006 dwheeler [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added 30 min

-C option for character set added in 1.24. Thanks!

Tue Apr 04 20:22:21 2006 dwheeler [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'open' to 'resolved'