On 15 Jan 2003, Meik Hellmund wrote:
> First, let me say many thanks for exim which is a terrific program!
> Let me also mention that spec.txt is the best description of how an
> MTA works and how it should be configured I ever found.
Thank you.
> ${rfc2047:<string>} applies parse_fix_phrase() to string to construct valid
> from-lines with non-ascii characters
> What do you think about including something like this in exim?
Should be easy enough. Noted.
> Another possibility would be to call parse_fix_phrase() automatically when a
> rewriting with the w flag takes place, but I didn't try that.
Yes, perhaps that should be done as well.
> ${utf8:<string>} converts string from utf8 to iso-8859-1
>
> This is only a hack, it needs the iconv..() functions as provided by the
> GNU libc.
I have my own UTF-8 functions for use with PCRE so would not need to use
an external lib in order to implement this.
> Another remark:
> parse_fix_phrase() depends - via mac_isprint() - on the
> print_topbitchars configuration option, which seems wrong to me. Is this a bug?
Probably! I've made a note to think about this.
Thanks for the patch.
Philip
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