[bitfolk] Re: Mojibake ("£") in billing emails

On Mon, Oct 10, 2022 at 12:49:19PM +0000, Andy Smith via BitFolk Users wrote: The problem was that this particular version of Outlook does not accept: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf8" Everything else is fine with that, including every other version of Outlook I could find a volunteer tester for, but this one wants: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" otherwise it ignores it and uses its default encoding which was set to "Western European". Perl's MIME::Entity module doesn't know what all the valid charsets are, so it would even let me do this: my $top = MIME::Entity->build( Charset => 'foobar', # … ); which would end up in the email as written, the difference being that such an email would be garbled almost everywhere instead of working almost everywhere! I had spotted this difference between mails sent by me personally and emails sent using MIME::Entity, and was working on testing that when some of you contacted me off-list to also suggest this. Well done! And of course thanks to everyone who helped with the testing. I haven't yet folded the fixes back into the real billing scripts, but I will do over the next few days, and will be able to write some tests for things that are not "UTF-8"! The fixed version of the test script is here: https://gist.github.com/grifferz/ca9e8f60a03f3691b07c1c12746b7f0f#file-test… Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting