Re: [Exim] rewriting full name in From-header with non-asci…

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Szerző: Dennis Davis
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Címzett: exim-users
Tárgy: Re: [Exim] rewriting full name in From-header with non-ascii characters
>From: Philip Hazel <ph10@???>
>Reply-To: exim-users@???
>To: Meik Hellmund <hellmund@???>
>cc: exim-users@???
>Subject: Re: [Exim] rewriting full name in From-header with non-ascii characters
>Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 17:10:02 +0000 (GMT)
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>On 17 Jan 2003, Meik Hellmund wrote:
>
>> I see, you are the author of PCRE, too.
>
>And other things. You can produce a lot of code in 32 years. :-)
>
>> But iconv is able to do more. What about a general
>> ${iconv{from-encoding}{to-encoding}{string}}
>> expansion operator? This should not be difficult with the
>> iconv_*() functions in the GNU libc but I have no idea how the
>> support outside Linux looks like.
>
>That's the point. Although many folk live in a Linux-only world,
>Exim runs on many other OS. Indeed, I develop it on Solaris at
>present, which I see does have iconv(), but I don't know how
>compatible it is. I've made a not to investigate sometime.


Well, I'm running mailservers on OpenBSD. And that *doesn't* have
the iconv library in the default installation. The iconv library is
there in the ports tree and in practice it's often installed as an
add-on as lots of other software uses it. However any exim build
couldn't assume that it's there.