On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 10:12:45PM +0200, David H??rdeman wrote:
> Package: devscripts
> Version: 2.9.19
> Severity: normal
>
> Bug #339657 fixed the problem where bts wouldn't properly escape 8bit
> characters in DEBFULLNAME. But if DEBFULLNAME isn't set, the full name
> is taken from /etc/passwd and used without escaping it first, causing
> the same problems as in #339657.
Oh. I don't know how to solve this one.
The full name is taken from DEBFULLNAME or EMAIL, and if neither of
these are set, then from getpwuid. If `locale charmap` returns
anything, the charset is taken from that setting and is used to encode
the name for MIME purposes.
This bug arises in the following situation:
DEBFULLNAME is not set, and
EMAIL is either unset or does not contain the name, and
getpwuid (reading /etc/passwd or some other source) returns a name
using an 8-bit encoding, and
the locale does not match the encoding of /etc/passwd or whatever
How should I determine the correct encoding to use in this situation?
Or would it be better not to use the name at all in such a situation?
The latter might be best.
Julian
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