From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: tyberius_prime@coonabibba.de (Tyberius Prime)
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 17:16:27 +0100
Subject: [sup-talk] UTF-8 woes
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Message-ID: <1232640702-sup-1568@h984274.serverkompetenz.net>

Hi,

I'm also struck by Sup's UTF-8 weirdnesses,
and can't get German szetz to display correctly
(and they mess with the line width as well).
The other umlauts work though, and I don't know why.

I'd also appreciate work on sending utf-8,
though subject encoding is a weird beast.
(And my ruby skills are 'by transfer' only as well).

So long,
Tyberius Prime

> 2. something about the message text, probably missing
> "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit" makes my emails with latvian
> characters explode with ugliness for my poor recipients on Outlook;
> 
> 3. The minor glitch that the Sup's display is slightly messed up, if
> the message contains multi-byte characters in headers -- fixed either
> very nicely by extending String with length_utf8 (and substr_utf8, and
> others as needed) function, and replacing s.length with s.length_utf8
> in lib/sup/buffer.rb or by going the ugly way of assuming that all
> strings are and will be utf-8 and dropping a horrendous monkeypatch
> into the lib/sup/util.rb with
> 
> class String
> +  def length
> +    self.scan(/./u).size
> +  end
> 
> 
> To see what exactly is wrong with the sending of mails I compared of
> how the same mail is sent by mutt and how -- by sup. You can see the
> mails here: http://spicausis.lv/sup/ where mail-mutt.txt is good,
> mail-sup.txt is bad.
> 
> My ruby skills are non-existant yet, but I guess I'll try to whip up
> patches for these things today, if somebody with more ruby and sup and
> mta shizzle don't beat me to that.
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Einar Lielmanis