Subject: [sup-talk] new in svn: rfc2047 header decoding, and charset conversion

From: [email-masked] (William Morgan)
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 08:47:50 -0700

RFC2047 headers and MIME message parts with Content-Type headers are now
converted to the local character set (default utf8 if not set).  This
should work immediately for new messages. In order to see these changes
on messages already in the index, you'll need to:

  1. delete any entries in people.txt and contact.txt that are
     RFC2047-encoded; and
  2. run sup-sync --all --all-sources

If you see warnings in the Sup log about decoding, that means iconv
couldn't convert the original message to your character set. It's a
little picky and apparently doesn't offer anything more fine-grained
than "encode everything or raise an exception". We just use the original
message as is, as we've been doing all along, in that case.

On my Debian box with LANG=en_US.utf-8, running Sup in gnome-terminal, I
can now see accented characters. Yay! Haven't yet tried wide characters.

-- 
William <wmorgan-sup at masanjin.net>