* Martin-Éric Racine: > When piping text into heirloom-mailx, it fails to specify the charset used > with > the From: line if the name inherited from /etc/passwd is in UTF-8. > > cat file | mail -s "some subject" u...@domain.ltd > > q-funk:x:1000:1000:Martin-Éric Racine,,,:/home/q-funk:/bin/bash
As far as I know, using non-ASCII characters in the GECOS field of /etc/passwd is not specified at all. So far, I haven't found anything Debian's main policy file, passwd(5), the adduser(8) and useradd(8) manpages, nor the documentation of base-passwd. (If you have found more than I, let me know.) >From an application's standpoint, I'd tend to assume the GECOS field either to be a comma-sparated string of ASCII characters or a comma-separated string of byte values. Yes, I can see how useless both options are is your case. :-) Basing mailx' interpretation of the GECOS field on the sendcharset variable, as you suggested is probably not a good idea. > Message-Id: <1252199465.516755.6377.nullmai...@iki.fi> > From: Martin-?ric Racine <q-f...@iki.fi> As a workaround, please try setting your real name to a pre-encoded string in the .mailrc. Cheers, -Hilko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
