https://bz.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=7250
Bug ID: 7250
Summary: Changing a default setting of 'report_charset' to
UTF-8
Product: Spamassassin
Version: SVN Trunk (Latest Devel Version)
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: NEW
Severity: enhancement
Priority: P2
Component: Libraries
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
A default setting of 'report_charset' is currently undefined, meaning
that no attempt is made on properly encoding pieces that form a report,
different encodings are just spliced together, with expected results ;)
Another common choice is to set it to ISO-8859-1, which will munge
any non- Latin-1 character in a report.
Now that internals are being gradually converted to Unicode (perl characters),
or to UTF-8 octets (like in a mail header), I think it's about time to change
the default encoding to UTF-8 in a report body and in mail header fields
generated by SpamAssassin. The UTF-8 is nowadays understood by most mail
readers, and ISO-8859-1 is useless for anyone outside of the Western world
anyway. Moreover, encoding perl characters to UTF-8 is a very fast
operation, compared to calling Encode to encode to any other encoding.
I'm opening this ticket mainly in order to document the change.
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