Bug#969012: libemail-outlook-message-perl: Fix charset handling

Olly Betts olly at survex.com
Wed Aug 26 03:37:01 BST 2020


Package: libemail-outlook-message-perl
Version: 0.919-1
Severity: normal
Tags: patch upstream
Forwarded: https://github.com/mvz/email-outlook-message-perl/pull/15

This module doesn't currently handle the "Internet Code Page" property,
nor use the appropriate default of "CP1252".  Instead charset="UTF-8"
is always used for text/plain, and no charset is specified for
text/html.

I came up with a patch to address this some time ago and sent it
upstream, and it was merged back in April.  There's not been an upstream
release since, but given upstream have applied the patch I think we
should apply it in Debian.  As things stand the module gets things wrong
unless the content is actually in ASCII or UTF-8, and while that's
probably true of most RFC822 email, it seems that a lot of mail from
Outlook uses CP1252.

I'm an uploader for the package and I'm planning to prepare an upload
shortly - this bug is really to document the situation clearly.

Cheers,
    Olly



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