Hi,

Non-ascii letters appear quite often in this mailing list, but (due to a
mhonarc bug) they are usually unreadable in the official web archive of this
mailing list.

The bug is known and a fix is already available. About two weeks ago I wrote
a mail to the nl.linux.org admin asking for a fix but I got no reply.

Is there someone here (Markus maybe?) who could get in contact with the site
admins and fix the archive?

Original mail follows.


Thanks,

Egmont




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Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 14:47:03 +0100
From: Egmont Koblinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: wrong non-ascii letters in mail archives

Hi,

I've found that the web archive of the linux-utf8 mailing list often
displays non-ascii characters incorrectly. This is quite bad in general, but
especially bad since this particular mailing list is about how to handle
non-English letters correctly, and people often write non-ascii letters in
their messages to demonstrate things. I see these messages perfectly in my
mail client (mutt 1.5.6 running inside an UTF-8 terminal) but they are
incorrect in the web archive.

An example is a message sent only a couple of minutes ago:
http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/2005-03/msg00011.html
whereas the original message is encoded in UTF-8 character set (and Quoted
printable transfer encoding, but this shouldn't matter), but the archive
shows A and I characters with some accents instead of micro sign, greek mu,
german sharp s, greek beta, etc...

This is a bug in mhonarc which is still buggy in their latest release
(2.6.10) but already fixed in CVS, see these:

bug report:

http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?func=detailitem&item_id=11187

patch and commit log:

http://www.mhonarc.org/archive/html/mhonarc-commits/2004-12/msg00001.html

So theoretically all you'd need to do is apply this trivial patch to mhonarc
and re-generate the archives, accented letters would become repaired then.
I hope so :-))



Thanks,

Egmont

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