Description

When using e-mail notifications and utf-8 charset, mail notifies received have broken body encoding for non-english content. It was tested using russan utf-8 encoded text.

Steps to reproduce

file /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/MoinMoin/config.py has {{{charset = 'utf-8' }}}

Example

In mails received all non-english body is shown like {{{- * =D0=9C=D0=B8=D1=82=D0=B5 =D0=91. =D0=94=D0=98=D0=94 + * =D0=9C=D0=B8=D1=82=D0=B5 =D0=91. =D0=94=D0=98=D0=94 [part] + = }}}

Details

Workaround

The next patch helps to solve the problem

--- MoinMoin/util/mail.py       2006-05-11 19:24:00.000000000 +0300
+++ /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/MoinMoin/util/mail.py      2006-08-25 20:39:43.000000000 +0300
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@
     charset.header_encoding = QP
     charset.body_encoding = QP
     msg.set_charset(charset)    
-    msg.set_payload(charset.body_encode(text))
+    msg.set_payload(text)
     
     # Create message headers
     # Don't expose emails addreses of the other subscribers, instead we

after applying this patch to utils/mail.py mails received have body encoded using QP and are shown properly. Seems charset.body_encode(text) is excessive here.

• Note: This fix makes it work, but is incorrect and will break again if you install a fixed python version.

Discussion

Plan

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• Status: Duplicate of MoinMoinBugs/ResetPasswordEmailImproperlyEncoded, was not a bug in MoinMoin but a broken Python. Moin works it around now.

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