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Re: mhfixmsg character set conversion
From: |
David Levine |
Subject: |
Re: mhfixmsg character set conversion |
Date: |
Tue, 8 Feb 2022 05:00:01 -0800 |
Steven Winikoff wrote:
> I owe you an apology about this, and I'm sincerely sorry for wasting your
> time on this question.
No apology is necessary. This uncovered an issue with mhfixmsg that
we fixed.
> The key is the message about the line length being too long. Seeing that
> reminded me that I'd modified the stock 1.7.1 mhfixmsg with this patch:
-decodetext binary instead of 8bit would be safer, I expect. It
sounds like you might have tried that in the past without success.
It might help to dig in to that.
> There's still something going on that I don't understand, however. The
> way I've evaluated the output from mhfixmsg was by viewing it in vim, and
> there's no question that the unpatched output looks fine while the patched
> output is as I've been describing since the beginning of this thread.
>
> ...but when I look at the files with command-line tools such as more or
> head, *both* versions look correct.
But are they correct? It sounds like not, based on viewing in text
editors.
> In summary, I now know what's happening and (mostly) what to do about it,
> but I still don't know why.
I would look at output from mime_helper and see if it's UTF-8.
David
- Re: mhfixmsg character set conversion, (continued)
- Re: mhfixmsg character set conversion, Robert Elz, 2022/02/11
- Re: mhfixmsg character set conversion, Ralph Corderoy, 2022/02/12
- Re: mhfixmsg character set conversion, Steven Winikoff, 2022/02/12
- Re: mhfixmsg character set conversion, Ralph Corderoy, 2022/02/12
- Re: mhfixmsg character set conversion, Ralph Corderoy, 2022/02/09
- Re: mhfixmsg character set conversion, Steven Winikoff, 2022/02/09
- Re: mhfixmsg character set conversion,
David Levine <=
- Re: mhfixmsg character set conversion, Steven Winikoff, 2022/02/09
- Re: mhfixmsg character set conversion, David Levine, 2022/02/09
- Re: mhfixmsg character set conversion, Steven Winikoff, 2022/02/09
- Re: mhfixmsg character set conversion, David Levine, 2022/02/09
- Re: mhfixmsg character set conversion, Steven Winikoff, 2022/02/11
- Re: mhfixmsg character set conversion, Ralph Corderoy, 2022/02/12
- Re: mhfixmsg character set conversion, Steven Winikoff, 2022/02/12
- Re: mhfixmsg character set conversion, Ralph Corderoy, 2022/02/10
- Re: mhfixmsg character set conversion, Steven Winikoff, 2022/02/11
- Re: mhfixmsg character set conversion, Steven Winikoff, 2022/02/12