[Rt-devel] Should message subjects always be converted to UTF-8?

[Jesse Vincent]

That sure sounds like a bug. But we've discovered another issue in our  
handling of mime-encoded words. Expect to see RT convert all message  
headers with embedded mime encoded bits to be stored as UTF8 mime  
encoded bits.

On Sep 3, 2004, at 4:12 AM, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:

>
> Still looking in the attachments SQL table, I notice several subjects
> looking like this:
>
>    
> =?ISO-8859-1?B? 
> W3J0LWRldi51aW8ubm8gIzE3XSBGb3Ig5SBibGkgb3BwcmV0dGV0IHNv?=  
> =?ISO-8859-1?B?bSBicnVrZXI=?=
>
> Why aren't these subjects converted from ISO-8859-1 MIME encoding to
> UTF-8 when storing them in the database?
>
> The subject without this MIME wrapping are stored in UTF-8, so I
> surprised me that these ugly subject strings were not converted.
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