Re: Report mail has wrong time encoding

I think a better solution is to add a header to tell the email is in UTF-8

Jean-Louis

On 04/08/17 04:49 AM, Josef Ridky wrote:
> Hi, I would like to remind you this issue.
> It has been reported almost year ago, but nothing seems to happen with it.
>
> Do you think this could be part of next release?
>
> Regards
>
> Josef Ridky
> Associate Software Engineer
> Core Services Team
> Red Hat Czech, s.r.o.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> | From: "Josef Ridky" <[email protected]>
> | To: [email protected]
> | Sent: Friday, August 5, 2016 1:24:26 PM
> | Subject: Report mail has wrong time encoding
> |
> | Hi,
> |
> | I have a question. In amanda could be problem with encoding time in 
> report
> | mail header.
> |
> | Hostname: amandahost
> | Org : backuphost
> | Config : backuphost
> | Date : M�rz 21, 2016 <-!!!
> |
> | At [1] I found easy solution (just change LOCAL variable to 
> en_US.UTF-8), but
> | what if this is not suitable for user (he need different LOCAL 
> setting for
> | his system e.g. de_DE.UTF-8).
> |
> | What do you think about implementing of this patch, that should solve
> | described problem which is actual even for amanda-3.3.9 (source [2]):
> |
> | --- perl/Amanda/Report/human.pm.orig 2016-02-09 10:44:43.000000000 +0100
> | +++ perl/Amanda/Report/human.pm 2016-03-24 22:01:08.671869798 +0100
> | @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
> | use warnings;
> | use Carp;
> |
> | -use POSIX;
> | +use POSIX qw(locale_h strftime);
> | use Data::Dumper;
> |
> | use Amanda::Config qw(:getconf config_dir_relative);
> | @@ -377,6 +377,7 @@
> | # TODO: this should be a shared method somewhere
> | my $timestamp = $report->get_timestamp();
> | my ($year, $month, $day) = ($timestamp =~ m/^(\d\d\d\d)(\d\d)(\d\d)/);
> | + setlocale(LC_TIME, "C");
> | my $date = POSIX::strftime('%B %e, %Y', 0, 0, 0, $day, $month - 1,
> | $year - 1900);
> | $date =~ s/ / /g; # get rid of intervening space
> |
> |
> |
> | [1] https://forums.zmanda.com/showthread.php?6134-Character-Encoding 
> <https://forums.zmanda.com/showthread.php?6134-Character-Encoding>
> | [2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1317122 
> <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1317122>
> |
> | Regards
> |
> | Josef Ridky
> | Associate Software Engineer
> | Core Services Team
> | Red Hat Czech, s.r.o.
> |
> |
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