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and subject line Re: Bug#614004: slrn: outgoing charset UTF-8: misleading 
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Package: slrn
Version: 0.9.9~pre111-1
Severity: minor

slrn uses a misleading example for setting the outgoing charset to UTF-8
in /usr/share/doc/slrn/examples/slrn.rc.gz:

  %
  %% 6. Character mapping / MIME support
  %

  [...]

  % the character set used for outgoing articles
  %charset outgoing "utf8"

That leads to a Content-Type header of


  Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf8

which is wrong; it should be

  Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8

(mind the hyphen!).

It's quite common to see that mistake in the wild, and a wrong
charset definition like that will keep other newsreaders from
correctly displaying the message (as they don't know a charset
named "utf8" and fall back to their default which very likely
is not UTF-8).

Please change that example to

  % the character set used for outgoing articles
  %charset outgoing "utf-8"

(I'm still using lenny on that box here but have confirmed that
this bug is still present in 1.0.0~pre18-1.1 from squeeze.)

Regards,
-thh

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.8
  APT prefers oldstable
  APT policy: (500, 'oldstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages slrn depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]       1.5.24       Debian configuration management sy
ii  libc6                       2.7-18lenny7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcanlock2                 2b-4         library for creating and verifying
ii  libslang2                   2.1.3-3      The S-Lang programming library - r

slrn recommends no packages.

Versions of packages slrn suggests:
pn  metamail                      <none>     (no description available)
pn  slrnpull                      <none>     (no description available)

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Version: 1.0.1-2

On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 02:49:25AM +0100, gregor herrmann wrote:
> Control: tag -1 + fixed-upstream
> 
> On Fri, 18 Feb 2011 21:46:29 +0100, Thomas Hochstein wrote:
> 
> >   % the character set used for outgoing articles
> >   %charset outgoing "utf8"
> 
> Fixed upstream in today^Wyesterday's 1.0.0 release.

Fixed in recent sid upload.

Cheers,
        Moritz

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