RE: Re: Re?rdering SVt_* constants; "internal" SV type

Vadim V Konovalov via perl5-porters <[email protected]> Tue, 23 Jun 2026 20:28:55 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.perl.perl5.porters
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> Vadim V Konovalov via perl5-porters <[email protected]> writes:
> 
> > ? isn't working well - probably your emailer settings are wrong
> 
> It's showing fine for me, and in the list archive:
> https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2026/06/msg270992.html
> 
> The
> header was sent as:
> 
> Subject: =?UTF-8?B?UmXDtnJkZXJpbmc=?= SVt_* constants;
> "internal" SV type
> 
> Which is a perfectly cromulent MIME encoding of the Unicode
> string "Re?rdering".  If any settings are wrong, it's on your side.

Subject claimed to be utf8 whereas entire email claimed to be 7bit US ASCII, observe:

X-Message-ID: veHuRGWbjQ36uzG5s4lommiY
Authentication-Results: inbound.mailchannels.net; spf=pass
 [email protected]; dkim=none; dmarc=none; arc=none
Received-SPF: pass (dmarc-service-54dd8dc6d7-jm2xc: domain of leonerd.org.uk
 designates 81.187.167.236 as permitted sender) client-ip=81.187.167.236;
 [email protected]; helo=cel.leonerd.org.uk;
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2026 12:43:25 +0100
From: "Paul \"LeoNerd\" Evans" <[email protected]>
To: Perl5 Porters <[email protected]>
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit


Compare this to other email in this list

Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2026 03:51:23 +0200
From: Aristotle Pagaltzis via perl5-porters <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: [External Email] PSC #228 2026-06-08
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
Content-Disposition: inline
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

No surprise that charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit messes thing up

Some mailers forgive this, some do not.


Why not LeöNerd? What if I pronounce it incorrectly? Very inconsistent.