Re: [Exim] How to convert UTF8'ed Chinese to plain chinese?

> On Mon, 15 Sep 2003, Hunte Swee wrote:
>
> > My question is how to convert UTF8'ed chinese chars to plain
> > chinese(gb2312 charset) in exim?
>
> Exim does not have comprehensive character set manipulation facilities.
> This is because I feel that an MTA should concern itself with moving
> messages about more than manipulating them.
>
> > I use LDAP as central virtual user accounts data source. Every user
> > can set a autoreply text, both english and chinese, which be stored in
> > the LDAP. Actually, the chinese chars were stored as utf8, this cause
> > a problem: when exim fetch the auto-reply text, it don't know convert
> > the text from utf8 to chinese, so the sender will receive a unreadable
> > chars.
>
> If you want to do it that way, you will probably have to write a
> separate program and use ${run. Or perhaps use ${perl.
>
> However, to create messages that involve multiple character sets, it is
> probably better not to use the autoreply transport at all. Instead, use
> some external software that understands character sets and which can
> create a properly formatted message with the appropriate character set
> information.
>
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