In a message of Mon, 20 Jul 2015 11:04:08 -0700, Mark Sapiro writes: >On 7/19/15 1:13 PM, Dominique Asselineau wrote: >> Hello, >> >> When a e-mail in text/html content-type is converted in to plain text, >> the accented characters are not treated correctly. > > >There are potential issues with this. Mailman gets the content of the >text/html part and calls HTML_TO_PLAINTEXT_COMMAND (lynx -dump in the >default case) to convert the HTML to a plain text rendering and replaces >the content of the part with that and changes the Content-Type: to >text/plain while maintaining any charset= parameter. > >Lynx normally does not recode any characters, so the output of lynx >-dump should be in the same charset is the input and it should be OK. > >Problems arise if the input has characters represented as HTML entities >such as á or è. In this case, lynx outputs the characters >encoded in a charset which may not match the messages encoding. > >In order to say more, I would need to see a raw message as sent to the >list with all headers intact and the resultant raw message from the list >with all headers intact. > >-- >Mark Sapiro <m...@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, >San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan >------------------------------------------------------
I had enough trouble with lynx over this -- it used to be how I converted all html mail my mail reader saw, but such characters are not rare in the mail I receive -- that I gave up on lynx. My new rule in my mailer for how to display html text is: w3m -dump -o display_link_number=1 -cols 78 -T text/html - I "$(echo %a | sed -r 's/.*charset="?([-a-zA-Z0-9_]*).*/\1/')" -O utf-8 | less which is one heck of a mouthful, but hasn't caused me any problems since. Just in case somebody else wants to ditch lynx ... Laura ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
