Package: libemail-outlook-message-perl Version: 0.919-1 Severity: normal Tags: patch upstream Forwarded: https://github.com/mvz/email-outlook-message-perl/pull/15
This module doesn't currently handle the "Internet Code Page" property, nor use the appropriate default of "CP1252". Instead charset="UTF-8" is always used for text/plain, and no charset is specified for text/html. I came up with a patch to address this some time ago and sent it upstream, and it was merged back in April. There's not been an upstream release since, but given upstream have applied the patch I think we should apply it in Debian. As things stand the module gets things wrong unless the content is actually in ASCII or UTF-8, and while that's probably true of most RFC822 email, it seems that a lot of mail from Outlook uses CP1252. I'm an uploader for the package and I'm planning to prepare an upload shortly - this bug is really to document the situation clearly. Cheers, Olly