Package: claws-mail-tools Version: 3.13.2-1 Severity: minor Tags: l10n Dear Maintainer,
claws-mail-tools provides textviewer.pl to view various attachments as text. When displaying RTF files as text, textviewer.pl uses "unrtf -t text", which converts the RTF to ASCII (as documented in the unrtf manpage). Actually, unrtf seems to be the second choice after rtf2text, which is not in Debian. With "unrtf -t text" non-ASCII characters are converted to garbage, e.g. it shows ` for ä, x for ü, a for ö, b for ß. By default unrtf converts to HTML and preserves the international characters as HTML entities. IMHO unrtf works as advertised here (converting to ASCII with the --text option), but textviewer doesn't really convert non-english RTF to plain text as it should. In an international context, plain text is not always ASCII. textviewer should work around the known limitation of unrtf, e.g. by converting to HTML using the unrtf standard mode and then to text using the default tools for that, which get international characters right. On a command line, something like "unrtf test.rtf|html2text" works fine, but simply replacing the "unrtf -t text" invocation in textviewer.pl seems to be not enough, so I can't offer a patch. Thanks for your work! Michael -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'stable'), (10, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.3.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages claws-mail-tools depends on: ii claws-mail 3.13.2-1 ii perl 5.22.1-7 ii python 2.7.11-1 claws-mail-tools recommends no packages. claws-mail-tools suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
