[rt-users] Encoding of subject line in outgoing messages

Thomas Sibley trs at bestpractical.com
Tue Dec 6 10:01:22 EST 2011


On 12/06/2011 09:56 AM, Thomas Sibley wrote:
> On 12/06/2011 03:17 AM, Stéphane Brot wrote:
>> If I create a ticketin the web interface with french special characters
>> like é àin the subject, the subject line of the outgoing mail for the
>> requestorisnot OK. Here is the mail header :
>>
>> Subject: =?us-ascii?Q?=3D=3FUTF-8=3FB=3FW3NlZmFuZXQgIzE2XSBBdXRvUmVwbH?=
>>
>>      =?us-ascii?Q?k6IENyw6nDqSBkYW5zIFJUIGF2ZWM=3D=3F=3D?=
>>
>> Seems tobe utf-8 surrounded by us-ascii !?
> 
> This is a correct encoding of Subject lines according to mail standards.
>  Is it actually causing problems in your mail client?

Actually, it is a little weird since it's doubly MIME header encoded (as
I just noticed).  You've said it appears to be mailx, so I'll clam up
now.  ;)

Thomas



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