Feature Requests item #843590, was opened at 2003-11-17 10:29 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by yenzenz You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=355470&aid=843590&group_id=5470
Category: Unicode Group: None Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: Stuart Bishop (zenzen) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: 'macintosh' encoding alias for 'mac_roman' Initial Comment: OS X's Mail.app can generate Subject lines like: Subject: =?MACINTOSH?B?vLu7vMGqo6KwpKalu7w=?= (Which decodes to '\xbc\xbb\xbb\xbc\xc1\xaa\xa3\xa2\xb0\xa4\xa6\xa5\xbb\xb c') This appears to be what Python calls the mac_roman encoding. I suggest adding 'macintosh' as an alias to 'mac_roman' to encodings/aliases.py to allow the email package to decode these headers. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Jens Klein (yenzenz) Date: 2004-12-19 21:09 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=474612 seems its a bit more difficult: encoding 'macintosh is registered by iana[1] (nice formatted in [2]) and is covered by RFC1345[3]. Name: macintosh [RFC1345,KXS2] MIBenum: 2027 Source: The Unicode Standard ver1.0, ISBN 0-201-56788-1, Oct 1991 Alias: mac Alias: csMacintosh [1]http://www.iana.org/assignments/character-sets [2]http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/chars/sorted.html [3]http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1345.html so far the hard facts from specification view. in all these specs are mac_roman etc. not mentioned. So what? I found at [4] with the popular program 'recode' a hint of the alias. the aothor there uses the iana registered macintosh as an alias for mac_roman: DEFENCODING(( "MacRoman", /* JDK 1.1 */ /* This is the best table for MACINTOSH. The ones */ /* in glibc and FreeBSD-iconv are bad quality. */ "MACINTOSH", /* IANA */ "MAC", /* IANA */ "csMacintosh", /* IANA */ ), mac_roman, { mac_roman_mbtowc }, { mac_roman_wctomb, NULL }) [4]http://recode.progiciels-bpi.ca/showfile.html?name=fusion/recode-3.6/ libiconv/encodings.def Because of that (I trust recode somehow) i would propose to add macintosh as an alias for mac_roman. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: M.-A. Lemburg (lemburg) Date: 2004-12-19 00:01 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=38388 I have no problem adding aliases to the encodings package, but please provide some reference that this actually is a valid alias for the mac_roman encoding. There are quite a few other mac_* encodings to choose from as well, so the coice is not obvious to me. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Jens Klein (yenzenz) Date: 2004-12-18 23:49 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=474612 +1 from me Archetypes (a Zope framework) runs also in a problem because of the missing alias. more infos: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php? func=detail&aid=1068001&group_id=75272&atid=543430 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Stuart Bishop (zenzen) Date: 2003-11-17 11:47 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=46639 The test was just a sequence of random high-bit characters: ºªªº¡™£¢?§¶•ªº (lets see if the web interface lets that through). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: M.-A. Lemburg (lemburg) Date: 2003-11-17 11:12 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=38388 Are you sure ? The decoded string you give does not look like anything readable... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=355470&aid=843590&group_id=5470 _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
