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In lugnet.admin.general, Fredrik Glöckner wrote:
> > That way, the article would be stored on the server using native
> > ISO-8859-1 encoding rather than the unreadable ASCIIfications.
>
> This sounds like a nice idea.
(Just came across this old thread and realized this hadn't yet been fixed.)
OK, I've just installed a filter which does this conversion based on the
RFC 2047 specification.
This eliminiates nasties like =?ISO-8859-1?Q?f=F2=F3=20b=E2r?= in Subject
lines and other message headers, replacing them instead with readable text.
All character sets (ISO-8859-1, US-ASCII, X-UNKNOWN, WINDOWS-1252, etc.)
are decoded from their =XX form into octets. The 'charset' element of the
'Content-Type' tag tells the client which character set is in use.
Both the Q (quoted-printable) and the B (base64) encodings of RFC 2045 are
handled.
Examples:
OLD: From: Fredrik =?iso-8859-1?q?Gl=F6ckner?= <fredrigl@math.uio.no>
NEW: From: Fredrik Glöckner <fredrigl@math.uio.no>
OLD: Organization: =?iso-8859-1?Q?H=F6gskolan?= i =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sk=F6vde?=
NEW: Organization: Högskolan i Skövde
OLD: Subject: Re: Oh gente, vamos =?ISO-8859-1?Q?l=E1_a_dar_uma_ajuda!?=
=?ISO-8859-1?Q?_=28rob=F3tica_=3A-=29?=
NEW: Subject: Re: Oh gente, vamos lá a dar uma ajuda! (robótica :-)
OLD: Subject: Fwd: Re: Treffen in S
=?ISO-8859-1?B?/GRkZXV0c2NobGFuZCBhbSBu5A==?=chsten Wochenende?
NEW: Subject: Fwd: Re: Treffen in Süddeutschland am nächsten Wochenende?
OLD: Subject: 928 @ =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=A330?=
NEW: Subject: 928 @ £30
OLD: Subject: Re: Attn: Ralph D=?ISO-8859-1?B?9g==?=ring
NEW: Subject: Re: Attn: Ralph Döring
OLD: Subject: =?ISO-8859-1?B?bGliZXJ04CBkaSBzdGFtcGEgZSBjZW5zdXJh?=
NEW: Subject: libertà di stampa e censura
Applying the filter retroactively resulted in approximately 2,802 changes.
For the curious, a comprehensive (minus cancelled articles) summary of
differences between old and new appears here:
http://www.lugnet.com/temp/fixrfc2047headers.html.gz (47 KB)
(It's gzipped because the HTML file is 1 MB.)
--Todd
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