Incorrect Display of Forum Notification Mails

Incorrect Display of Forum Notification Mails

When recieving an email notification about a post made in a thread you're subscribed to it usually displays fine -- that is, if the thread is English oriented.

However, if the thread in question is in another langauge, say... Hebrew, it will display like this: screen shot.
I'm pretty sure the fault lays at the encoding the server sends out the emails, as M2 can perfectly display email titles in Hebrew from other sources.

I shall bump this one for kasper as well. muahaha!

It can't be that hard to fix...

Copy the entire mail with headers and paste it here (simply press 'C' while viewing the mail to copy the entire thing).

It should Just Work(TM), considering we are using UTF8.

Well damn, I already deleted that email...

But I'll tell you what!
Post some testing message in this thread (it has the title written in Hebrew), so I'll get a notification (I'm subscribed to it) and then I'll post for ya' the headers.

Return-path: <noreply@opera.com>
Received: from mr9.bezeqint.net (mr9.bezeqint.net [192.115.104.79]) by mas4.bezeqint.net (MOS 3.5.4-GR) with ESMTP id FID36796; Mon, 13 Feb 2006 16:47:54 +0200 (IST)
Received: from mx1.opera.com (mx1.opera.com [193.69.116.6]) by mr9.bezeqint.net (MOS 3.7.2-GA) with ESMTP id HDR46081; Mon, 13 Feb 2006 16:47:42 +0200 (IST)
Received: from m14.opera.com ([193.69.116.74]) by mx1.opera.com (8.13.4/8.13.4/Debian-3) with ESMTP id k1DElYu2025071 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for <idan16@bezeqint.net>; Mon, 13 Feb 2006 14:47:35 GMT
Received: from localhost.localdomain (m14.opera.com [193.69.116.74]) by m14.opera.com (8.13.4/8.13.4/Debian-3) with ESMTP id k1DEjsAe004097 for <idan16@bezeqint.net>; Mon, 13 Feb 2006 14:46:25 GMT
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 16:45:54 +0200
Message-ID: <200602131446.k1DEjsAe004097@m14.opera.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
From: noreply@opera.com
To: idan16@bezeqint.net
Subject: =?utf-8?Q?=5BOpera_Community=5D_Post_to_topic_=22?=
=?utf-8?Q?=C3=97=C3=97=C3=97=C3=97=C3=97_-_=C3=97=C3=97?=
=?utf-8?Q?=C3=97=C2=A4=C3=97=C2=A8=C3=97_=C3=97=C3=97=C3=97?=
=?utf-8?Q?=C3=97_=C3=97=C3=97=C2=A2=C3=97=C3=97=C3=97=C3=97?=
=?utf-8?Q?_=C3=97=C3=97=C3=97=C2=A8=C3=97=C3=97_=C3=97?=
=?utf-8?Q?=C3=97=C3=97=C3=97=C2=A8=C3=97=C3=97_=C3=97=C3=97?=
=?utf-8?Q?=C2=A2=C3=97=C3=97=C3=97=22?=
X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.88/1286/Mon Feb 13 11:41:56 2006 on mx1.opera.com
X-Virus-Status: Clean

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olekasper has made a post to a forum topic you are subscribed to.


An excerpt from the post:
I agree!


Visit http://my.opera.com/hebrew/forums/findpost.pl?id=1432689 to see the entire post.
You will not be notified of further posts to this thread until you have read it.

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The charset is indeed set to UTF-8 it seems, but it still shows up as in the screen shot in the first post.

Hmm. Yes. There seems to be something wrong with the encoding already before assembling the email.

Bump.

Were the server people contacted or is this actually a mixed Opera browser bug?

Bump...
Still happens...

Will this ever get attention from the server monkeys?

Well, currently notification mails doesn't work at all. But this isn't too easy of an issue to resolve. But I'll try looking at it again.

Originally posted by olekasper:

Well, currently notification mails doesn't work at all. But this isn't too easy of an issue to resolve. But I'll try looking at it again.

Hmm… What about?:

$headers  = "MIME-Version: 1.0\n";
$headers .= "Content-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8\n";
$headers .= "From: =?UTF-8?B?".base64_encode('Polish forum: Zażółć gęślą jaźń')."?= <".$mailfrom.">";
$subject = "=?UTF-8?B?".base64_encode('Polish subject: Zażołć gęślą jaźń')."?=";

Agrh… Courier for code sections is horrible Please update style sheets to at least "Courier New".

Høh. I override to Bitsream Vera Sans Mono.

Originally posted by olekasper:

I override to Bitsream Vera Sans Mono.

He, he… I'm using Consolas currently IMO the best option would be setting it to generic monospace family by fred

So this issue also happens for our Polish friends and not just Israelis?
Hmm... Deserves more attention from the community devs then!

Originally posted by YtseJam:

So this issue also happens for our Polish friends and not just Israelis?

It happens to all users who use chars beyond ASCII table The problem is simple to resolve. 8-bit headers should be encoded to 7-bit strings: http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2047.html The above example is one of probably many techniques how to do it.

All we need now is for my.opera devs to take action on their part...

Well, since Olek's last post he has managed to leave his position @ My Opera, and this is still happening.

Almost a year later, no change from My Opera. In fact, it only got worse (see screen shot below, compared to original screen shot).
Great work guys. Not.

http://img165.imageshack.us/img165/6167/noexcusesmk6.jpg