[wp-hackers] 8bit ASCII characters in headers of comment-notification-mails

[drDave]

Actually, this is not completely true afaik.
If you check out RFCs 2047 (http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2047.html) and 
2231, you will see that there is a mechanism allowing you to specify an 
encoding for your subject header. e.g.:
  =?iso-8859-1?Q?R=FCckantwort_?=

This RFC is far from perfect, but it is essential, especially for 
countries where the whole writing system relies on non-ASCII 
characters.
It can sometimes be a problem if your MTA messes with these headers and 
decode them instead of leaving that task up to the sole MUA... but 
that's not really the sender's fault. It means your MTA is somehow not 
up to date and should be fixed.

I do not know if WP is respecting this RFC, if not it would indeed be a 
good idea to make sure that the subject header is thus encoded 
(probably UTF-8 would be a good choice) whenever sending mails from WP.

HtH,
-- 
Dave / デイヴ
drdave at unknowngenius.com


On Sep 1, 2004, at 10:51 PM, Sebastian Herp wrote:

> Hello fellow wordpress hackers,
>
> i recently switched my mailserver to something i (will) have more 
> control over. While doing this i noticed that the 
> comment-notifications do not use 7bit-ASCII-encoding in the 
> email-header. This is a violation of the standard and as such noted by 
> my mailserver. All unencoded chars get replaced by "X" (looks ugly) 
> :-)
>
> Is this a general problem of php sending mails or is this something 
> that we/you have control over?
>
> Greetings,
> Sebastian
>
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