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doc/bugs/password_reset_fails_with___34__Wide_character_in_subroutine_entry__34__.mdwn
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@ -5,3 +5,22 @@ We get the following error in a password reset:
Error: Wide character in subroutine entry at /usr/share/perl5/Mail/Sendmail.pm line 308. Error: Wide character in subroutine entry at /usr/share/perl5/Mail/Sendmail.pm line 308.
Help! :) --[[anarcat]] Help! :) --[[anarcat]]
> I assume this means Mail::Sendmail doesn't know how to send Unicode
> strings, so any string passed to it (or any message body, or something?)
> will need to be passed through `encode_utf8()`. It looks as though
> Mail::Sendmail also defaults to
>
> Content-Type: 'text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"'
>
> so it'll need a `'Content-Type' => 'text/plain; charset="utf-8"'`
> too.
>
> I'm disappointed to see how many of the library modules used by ikiwiki
> are not Unicode-clean... but then again, Mail::Sendmail was last released
> in 2003 so it's hardly surprising. I wonder whether [[!cpan Email::Sender]]
> is any better?
>
> (If you know Python 2, the analogous situation would be "doesn't
> know how to send unicode objects, so you have to get a str object
> with `a_unicode_object.encode('utf-8')`".) --[[smcv]]