[rt-users] WORKAROUND: anyone else? rt3.2.2+apache2+fastcgi - problem with mailgate (double utf8-encoding)

[Jesse Vincent]

On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 02:48:42PM +0100, Dirk Pape wrote:
> Hello rt-users,
> 
> 
> I patched this:
> 
> <http://page.mi.fu-berlin.de/~pape/rt3/patches/rt/3.2.2/mail-gateway_charset_utf8.patch>
> 
> Now rt-mailgate doesn't complain anymore.
> 
> Are those lines:
> 
> <%flags>
> inherit => undef # inhibit UTF8 conversion done in /autohandler
> </%flags>
> 
> really necessary in RST/.../mail-gate?
> Is this patch expected to break some other thing?

By default, RT assumes that _all_ incoming http messages are in UTF8 and
acts accordingly. This can (and in the past did) scramble incoming email
if it wasn't UTF8 to begin with.

	Jesse



> Dirk.
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