Re: [bgware] Announcing ezmlm-browse version 0.13

Kyle Wheeler <[email protected]> Tue, 23 Sep 2008 15:59:37 -0500

Newsgroups	gmane.mail.ezmlm,gmane.comp.sysutils.bgware
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On Tuesday, September 23 at 01:08 PM, quoth Bruce Guenter:
>Version 0.13 of ezmlm-browse is now available at:
>	http://untroubled.org/ezmlm-browse/

Could the next version of ezmlm-browse be modified to handle non-UTF-8 
messages, and to correctly convert things (e.g. via iconv)? Currently, 
the charset handling is pretty awful. Take, for example, this: 
http://www.memoryhole.net/cgi-bin/ezmlm-browse?list=state_of&cmd=showmsg&msgnum=41

The original message was in the windows-1252 charset (relatively 
common). The entire page is tagged as UTF-8, but the message contents 
are transmitted unchanged from the original, which means they're 
mis-tagged. Any browser that looks at that will choke, because all the 
non-ascii characters must be considered (at best) malformed utf-8 
characters. Since the message is already tagged as utf-8, all that 
needs to happen is ezmlm-browse should actually convert the messages 
from their labeled character sets into valid utf-8.

~Kyle
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