Re: [tlug] Japanese in Perl on Linux

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@example.com>]

>>>>> "simon" == simon colston <simon@example.com> writes:

    simon> The only way to specify the actual character encoding of
    simon> the headers is to base64 encode them.

Actually, it's MIME encoded-words that you need.  You could use
quoted-printable and even limit quoting to the escape characters at
either end (and a few others, such as spaces and equal signs, that may
not appear within an encoded-word), but it is deprecated practice to
use QP unless the ASCII characters stand for themselves.  See RFC
2047, section 4:

   The "Q" encoding is recommended for use when most of the characters
   to be encoded are in the ASCII character set; otherwise, the "B"
   encoding should be used.  Nevertheless, a mail reader which claims
   to recognize 'encoded-word's MUST be able to accept either encoding
   for any character set which it supports.

Which suggests this rule for .procmailrc:

:0:
* =\?iso-8859-([1-9]|1[0-6])\?b
/dev/null

:-þ


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