Re: incorrect non-ascii letters in web archive

[Simos Xenitellis <simos74@xxxxxxx>]

Hi,
If you get hold of the mailing list admin, could you please add the 
following:

If someone visits http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/ and tries to 
subscribe
from the link at the top, s/he will notice that nothing happens.
The problematic link is https://mail.nl.linux.org/cgi-bin/lsg2.cgi
and it appears that the HTTPS virtual server is not working....
Could you please fix?

Thanks,
Simos

Egmont Koblinger wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Non-ascii letters appear quite often in this mailing list, but (due to a
> mhonarc bug) they are usually unreadable in the official web archive of this
> mailing list.
>
> The bug is known and a fix is already available. About two weeks ago I wrote
> a mail to the nl.linux.org admin asking for a fix but I got no reply.
>
> Is there someone here (Markus maybe?) who could get in contact with the site
> admins and fix the archive?
>
> Original mail follows.
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Egmont
>
>
>
>
> ----- Forwarded message from Egmont Koblinger <egmont@xxxxxxxxxxx> -----
>
> Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 14:47:03 +0100
> From: Egmont Koblinger <egmont@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: builders@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: wrong non-ascii letters in mail archives
>
> Hi,
>
> I've found that the web archive of the linux-utf8 mailing list often
> displays non-ascii characters incorrectly. This is quite bad in general, but
> especially bad since this particular mailing list is about how to handle
> non-English letters correctly, and people often write non-ascii letters in
> their messages to demonstrate things. I see these messages perfectly in my
> mail client (mutt 1.5.6 running inside an UTF-8 terminal) but they are
> incorrect in the web archive.
>
> An example is a message sent only a couple of minutes ago:
> http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/2005-03/msg00011.html
> whereas the original message is encoded in UTF-8 character set (and Quoted
> printable transfer encoding, but this shouldn't matter), but the archive
> shows A and I characters with some accents instead of micro sign, greek mu,
> german sharp s, greek beta, etc...
>
> This is a bug in mhonarc which is still buggy in their latest release
> (2.6.10) but already fixed in CVS, see these:
>
> bug report:
>
> http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?func=detailitem&item_id=11187
>
> patch and commit log:
>
> http://www.mhonarc.org/archive/html/mhonarc-commits/2004-12/msg00001.html
>
> So theoretically all you'd need to do is apply this trivial patch to mhonarc
> and re-generate the archives, accented letters would become repaired then.
> I hope so :-))
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Egmont
>
> ----- End forwarded message -----
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