[Mailman-Developers] [ mailman-Bugs-601082 ] personalized recip should be MIMEed

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Bugs item #601082, was opened at 2002-08-27 21:19
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Category: mail delivery
Group: 2.1 beta
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Tokio Kikuchi (tkikuchi)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: personalized recip should be MIMEed

Initial Comment:
If the list delivery is personalized, user's name is
placed in To: header. When the user choose to register
non-ascii character in the name, To: header contain
non-ascii and breaks RFC(number?Idontknow). 
A quick and dirty patch is included. I hope Barry can
inspect and revise it.



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>Comment By: Barry A. Warsaw (bwarsaw)
Date: 2002-09-13 15:08

Message:
Logged In: YES 
user_id=12800

Ouch, this is a tougher problem because you don't really
know what character set the name is in.  It may not be the
charset for the user's preferred language at all.

I can see three approaches.  First, you should never have
funny characters in the real name component (use the encoded
name instead).  Second, there could be a a second entry box
under the name asking for the charset of the name.  It would
default to us-ascii (or maybe just empty).  I fear however
that most people will be entirely clueless as to what the
proper value would be.  Third, if there are non-ascii
characters in the name, I think we could just encode with
utf-8 and be done with it -- you can't really guess much
more about the proper encoding.  I'm not sure the latter
will work or will even be cross platform.

Ideas?

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