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[IKEDA Soji <address@concealed>]

Goltz and all,

On Tue, 19 Nov 2013 13:23:45 +0000
"Goltz, Immo [Extern]" <address@concealed> wrote:

> Hello sympa users,
> 
> i am evaluating sympa with the intention to replace a lyris listmanger 
> installation.
> So far so good, but when it comes to soap, which is mandatory for our 
> environment, sympa fails.
> 
> That the provided functions are limited is not the point, i found some 
> patches to enhance this. But using soap, web gui (and mail) leads to 
> encoding problems. An broken welcome mails. I hope someone can point me 
> into the right direction how to fix this.
> 
> Base system is CentOS 6.4 / 64 bit. soap::lite, mime:: and other packages 
> via cpan, all other perl from centos or epel/rpmforge. MySQl as DB.
> sympa is version 6.1.17
> 
> Creation of a list with UTF8 characters inside subject and info
> * Using Web-GUI
>   -> correctly encoded in DB and in the 2 files (config, info)
>   -> correct view in Web-GUI
>   -> incorrect subject view in soap
> * Using soap
>   -> correctly encoded in DB
>   -> wrong (and different) encoding in the 2 files (config: Ä becomes C4, 
> info: Ä becomes EFBFBD)
>   -> incorrect view in Web-GUI
>   -> correct subject view in soap

I guess Encode::decode*() and Encode::encode*() in the codes for
soap may not be neccessary at all.  As it simply reads byte-string
data and output byte-strings, there seems no oppotunity of
conversion between internal Unicode.

How about removing all of these functions?
# I did so in current trunk of SVN repository.

> Adding a user with uf8 comment_subscriber  to a list
> * Using Web-GUI
>   -> (add user first, then edit user) correctly encoded in DB
>   -> correct view in Web-GUI
>   -> welcome mail correctly encoded
> * Using soap
>   -> correctly encoded in DB
>   -> correct view in Web-GUI
>   -> welcome mail incorrectly encoded (and body repeated 3 times if list 
> info contains cyrillic text)

This fact seems to support my guess above: anywhere in the code
for soap will call Encode::decode() (or Encode::decode_utf8())
in surplus.  WWSympa may not do it.


> I had a look at different sourcesup entries and did fiddly with 
> sympasoap.pm. But i couldnt fully solve these errors.
> Most disturbing, the problem of the broken welcome mail. This happens in 
> mail.pm, in sub reformat_message.
> It has something to do with MIME::Parser here: $msg = 
> $parser->parse_data($message);
> But as far as i could debug, the function is called with identical values 
> from soap and from web. So why is ist broken via soap?
> (with perl-MIME-tools-5.427-4.el6.noarch and MIME-tools-5.504 from cpan)


Regards,


--- Soji


> Any help is appreciated
> Thank you in advance
> 
> Immo Goltz




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