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author | http://smcv.pseudorandom.co.uk/ <smcv@web> | 2014-03-03 12:19:44 -0400 |
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committer | admin <admin@branchable.com> | 2014-03-03 12:19:44 -0400 |
commit | 383364be6acddb5185856cd29893ec635e0ef786 (patch) | |
tree | e0f870fa0cb66b7c059ab576ab8f51eb4c8cbf99 /doc/bugs | |
parent | 6a683800a4ff470f97dcadd89e5949afeadb34c2 (diff) | |
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diff --git a/doc/bugs/password_reset_fails_with___34__Wide_character_in_subroutine_entry__34__.mdwn b/doc/bugs/password_reset_fails_with___34__Wide_character_in_subroutine_entry__34__.mdwn index b68843036..b49fdb50c 100644 --- a/doc/bugs/password_reset_fails_with___34__Wide_character_in_subroutine_entry__34__.mdwn +++ b/doc/bugs/password_reset_fails_with___34__Wide_character_in_subroutine_entry__34__.mdwn @@ -5,3 +5,22 @@ We get the following error in a password reset: Error: Wide character in subroutine entry at /usr/share/perl5/Mail/Sendmail.pm line 308. Help! :) --[[anarcat]] + +> I assume this means Mail::Sendmail doesn't know how to send Unicode +> strings, so any string passed to it (or any message body, or something?) +> will need to be passed through `encode_utf8()`. It looks as though +> Mail::Sendmail also defaults to +> +> Content-Type: 'text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"' +> +> so it'll need a `'Content-Type' => 'text/plain; charset="utf-8"'` +> too. +> +> I'm disappointed to see how many of the library modules used by ikiwiki +> are not Unicode-clean... but then again, Mail::Sendmail was last released +> in 2003 so it's hardly surprising. I wonder whether [[!cpan Email::Sender]] +> is any better? +> +> (If you know Python 2, the analogous situation would be "doesn't +> know how to send unicode objects, so you have to get a str object +> with `a_unicode_object.encode('utf-8')`".) --[[smcv]] |