Bug#879205: [rt.cpan.org #123341] Re: Bug#879205: MIME::Words::encode_mimewords: double-encodes (produces Mojibake), produces too long lines

[Thorsten Glaser]

Dianne Skoll via RT dixit:

>I don't understand that either.  Maybe it was also an older version of
>Perl?  Perl's UTF-8 handling underwent extensive changes a few years ago.

Yes, that was on Debian wheezy. I reported this as bug in Debian
against wheezy (which is still supported-ish) first, then as a
separate bug against sid because I tried to see if it was still
reproducible, and got a different result.

Let me dig out version numbers…

Original system:
otrs2			3.3.18-1~deb7u1
perl    		5.14.2-21+deb7u5
libmime-tools-perl	5.503-1

New system:
perl			5.26.0-8
libmime-tools-perl	5.508-1

In addition to that, OTRS would have the original subject in
a Perl string already, whereas I tried¹ to draft a testcase
until I succeeded reproducing the original bug.

① tried, because I don’t really know Perl — I just can program

bye,
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