non-ASCII chars in headers

non-ASCII chars in headers

[Kai Großjohann]

I think something needs to be done about this.  Since I decided to put
`ß' in my From address, I get all kinds of problems.  In particular,
quite a few of my messages have an ASCII body but that eight bit
character in the header.

I think Gnus ought to have a look at the header before sending and to
encode non-ASCII characters.  Both for mail and for news.

kai
-- 
I like BOTH kinds of music.

Re: non-ASCII chars in headers

[Greg Stark]

Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:

> I think Gnus ought to have a look at the header before sending and to
> encode non-ASCII characters.  Both for mail and for news.

Seems to work fine from here:

> From: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=)

What's going wrong exactly?


-- 
greg

Re: non-ASCII chars in headers

[Graham Murray]

Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu> writes:

> Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:
> 
> > I think Gnus ought to have a look at the header before sending and to
> > encode non-ASCII characters.  Both for mail and for news.
> 
> Seems to work fine from here:
> 
> > From: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=)
> 
> What's going wrong exactly?

The problem seems to be that gnus correctly encodes the non-ascii
characters in the headers for *mail*, but uses "raw" 8bit characters
in *news*. As an example here are the headers I received for one of
Kai's posts to comp.emacs

>From: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann)
>Newsgroups: comp.emacs
>Subject: Re: rmail -> inbox (rmail -> vm)
>Date: 19 Sep 1999 00:22:33 +0200
>Organization: University of Dortmund, Germany
>Message-ID: <vaf1zbv6es6.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de>
>References: <37e3fadf@news1.prserv.net>
>NNTP-Posting-Host: lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de
>Mime-Version: 1.0
>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
>User-Agent: Gnus/5.070096 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.96) Emacs/20.4
>Path: barnowl.demon.co.uk!news.demon.co.uk!demon!dispose.news.demon.net!demon!newsfeed.nacamar.de!newsfeed.arcor-ip.de!news-fra1.dfn.de!news-koe1.dfn.de!news.ruhrgebiet.individual.net!Informatik.Uni-Dortmund.DE!news
>Lines: 4
>Xref: barnowl.demon.co.uk comp.emacs:6062

Re: non-ASCII chars in headers

[Kai Großjohann]

Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu> writes:

> Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE writes:
> 
> > I think Gnus ought to have a look at the header before sending and to
> > encode non-ASCII characters.  Both for mail and for news.
> 
> Seems to work fine from here: [...]

The problem occurs when posting to a news group and when the message
itself is ASCII only.

kai
-- 
I like BOTH kinds of music.