From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Yngve Svendsen To: Milan Zamazal Cc: gnats-devel@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: GNATS and MIME Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 13:06:00 -0000 Message-id: <5.1.0.7.2.20010220220154.00b7e140@mail.trd.clustra.com> References: <5.1.0.7.2.20010220151323.0563fc88@mail.trd.clustra.com> <87wvalgohn.fsf@zamazal.org> X-SW-Source: 2001-q1/msg00036.html At 20:09 20.02.2001 +0100, Milan Zamazal wrote: >Though the presented Perl script can serve as an acceptably good >workaround for some sites, it's necessary to find a real solution >sometimes. I think GNATS should handle non-ASCII e-mails, in both >directions, itself. However the issue is non-trivial, when solving it >we should probably not limit GNATS to 8-bit encodings and should work on >it together with overall GNATS internationalization. > >I'm personally not going to solve the problem until GNATS 4 is released. I agree. This needs to find a better solution, and the Perl script is no more than acceptable. It might not be too much work, since fairly good library functions shouldexist for this kind of thing. I really wish I was a stronger programmer. But let this serve as an invitation to everyone with a bit of free time on their hands to join us. - Yngve