Package: cron Version: 3.0pl1-100 Severity: important UTF-8 charset is default in Etch and hence I think cron should send email messages with this charset. I tried to source and export my system's locale variables (LANG and LC_*) in /etc/init.d/cron but it did not effect to emails sent by the cron. But adding
CONTENT_TYPE="text/plain; charset=utf-8" to every crontab file works. It would be nicer to use system's locale variables, though. More information is in the crontab(5) manual. Even if system administrator chooses to use non-UTF-8 locale, it doesn't necessarily hurt to send messages with UTF-8 charset since mail user agents handle the conversion. It only "hurts" when administrator creates non-UTF-8 encoded scritps which write something to stdout in a cron job. -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (900, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-3-k7 Locale: LANG=fi_FI.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fi_FI.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages cron depends on: ii adduser 3.102 Add and remove users and groups ii debianutils 2.17 Miscellaneous utilities specific t ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libpam0g 0.79-4 Pluggable Authentication Modules l ii libselinux1 1.32-3 SELinux shared libraries ii lsb-base 3.1-22 Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip Versions of packages cron recommends: ii exim4 4.63-17 metapackage to ease exim MTA (v4) ii exim4-daemon-light [mail-tran 4.63-17 lightweight exim MTA (v4) daemon -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
