Re: Mailman breakage [Was: rawhide report: 20081227 changes]

[Horst H. von Brand]

Ville =?utf-8?q?Skytt=C3=A4?= <ville.skytta(a)iki.fi&gt; wrote:
>  On Sunday 28 December 2008, Horst H. von Brand wrote:
>  > Rawhide Report <rawhide(a)fedoraproject.org&gt; wrote:
>  >
>  > [...]
>  >
>  > > rpmdevtools-7.0-1.fc11
>  > > ----------------------
>  > > * Fri Dec 26 17:00:00 2008 Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta at iki.fi> -
> 7.0-1
>  >                                         ~~
>  > Yep, same UTF-8 mangling I see here with my mailman installation. Sigh... 
>  Are you sure it's mailman's fault?  The copy I got of the
> original looked
>  like it was sent by something that just dumped its data into the body of
>  the non-MIME mail it created as raw UTF-8.  I suppose making the mails
>  MIME messages and indicating the correct Content-Type with charset info
>  and an appropriate Content-Transfer-Encoding would work better (+
>  possibly applying e.g. quoted-printable for extra safety). 
AFAICS, Mailman just doesn't forward the headers telling the encoding of
the non-ASCII body.

See above, the mangled text was re-mangled.
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