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and subject line Re: Bug#86817: debconf sends mail in EUC-JP encoding
has caused the Debian Bug report #86817,
regarding debconf sends mail in EUC-JP encoding
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Package: debconf
Version: 0.5.34
Severity: wishlist
debconf supports descripion in templates for several languages.
For Japanese, it uses EUC-JP encoding, because it is well supported
in libc and several application than other encoding such as Shift-JIS
and ISO-2022-JP. So, debconf will send it directly via mail for
"note" type. However, we don't use EUC-JP encoding in mail, but
we use ISO-2022-JP encoding. All mail user agent for Japanese
support ISO-2022-JP encoding, but few of them supports EUC-JP.
(There is some historial reason. EUC-JP needs 8bit through, but
ISO-2022-JP is 7bit encoding, so in old Internet ISO-2022-JP is
more suitable than EUC-JP.)
I think it is good that debconf has some locale aware hooks to send mail.
Thanks,
Fumitoshi UKAI
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On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 03:52:06PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> > #86817 (patched)
> > I've converted po/ja.po to the proper encoding : ISO-2022-JP
> > with iconv and have update the mail header :
> > "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-2022-JP\n"
> > This should be enough for this bug :)
> > See attachment : ja.po (diff is not pertinent here so I give
> > you the file).
>
> I would not dare to apply this unless a Japanese speaker has verified
> that it works and displays ok. Character set conversion can be buggy
> from/to Japanese, I understand.
Current debconf has po/ja.po with charset=UTF-8. Assuming this is
all that was necessary, I'm closing this bug. If the problem still
exists, please reopen it with a description of the current
state/problem.
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