Re^2: Putting a utf-8 subject into a mail header

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Re^3: Putting a utf-8 subject into a mail header by Anonymous Monk on Feb 27, 2009 at 15:45 UTC
Sorry, i was thinking `binmode STDOUT, ':encoding(UTF-8)';` [download] might make a difference, but you need `encode("MIME-Header",decode('UTF-8',$arg)));` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: Putting a utf-8 subject into a mail header by talexb (Chancellor) on Feb 27, 2009 at 16:00 UTC
Wow. It works. I'm not sure I understand, but I'll save that for later. Thank you. :) Alex / talexb / Toronto "Groklaw is the open-source mentality applied to legal research" ~ Linus Torvalds	[reply]
Re^5: Putting a utf-8 subject into a mail header by mr_mischief (Monsignor) on Feb 27, 2009 at 18:13 UTC
See Encode::MIME::Header for a further explanation. Also, RFC 2047 has the exact format and even a rationale for why it has to be encoded differently from the MIME email body. The biggest concerns are, BTW, a lack of information during processing of the headers and backwards compatibility with systems that only support 7bit encoding for headers. It's a header that tells what kind of MIME encoding the body will use. If your headers are encoded using the same method, you have a chicken-and-egg problem. RFC 2047 gives a 7-bit clean escape sequence to state the encoding in the individual header, and both servers and clients expect this method of escaping for non-7bit headers. This is a bit of a messy workaround, but it allows your MIME-encoded email with MIME-encoded headers to pass cleanly through SMTP servers that know nothing of these RFCs and be handled properly by the sending and receiving clients anyway.	[reply]
Re^3: Putting a utf-8 subject into a mail header by almut (Canon) on Feb 27, 2009 at 15:57 UTC
To expand on what Anonymous Monk said, @ARGV is one of those things in Perl (like filenames), where Unicode isn't handled automatically, so you need to explicitly `decode` your input.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: Putting a utf-8 subject into a mail header by talexb (Chancellor) on Feb 27, 2009 at 16:09 UTC
I thought I read yesterday in the Camel that `@ARGV` did handle utf-8, otherwise I would have pursued that possibility. Now, of course, I can't find the page that I thought I read. In my case, the input's coming from a web form .. so I may need to do the same thing for another problem I'm having. It would be awesome if this solution solves that problem as well. :) Alex / talexb / Toronto "Groklaw is the open-source mentality applied to legal research" ~ Linus Torvalds	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: Putting a utf-8 subject into a mail header by Anonymous Monk on Feb 27, 2009 at 16:00 UTC
or add `#!/usr/bin/perl -CDSLA` [download] -C is -CDSL	[reply] [d/l]