From: http://smcv.pseudorandom.co.uk/ Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2014 16:19:44 +0000 (-0400) Subject: diagnosis X-Git-Tag: debian/3.20140613~140 X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/commitdiff_plain/383364be6acddb5185856cd29893ec635e0ef786?ds=inline;hp=6a683800a4ff470f97dcadd89e5949afeadb34c2 diagnosis --- 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]]