[Alpine-info] bugfixes for UTF-8 hostnames

Asheesh Laroia asheesh at asheesh.org
Wed Sep 24 19:58:50 PDT 2008


On Wed, 24 Sep 2008, Mark Crispin wrote:


> Problem:

> Invalid email headers generated by Alpine.

>

> Diagnosis:

> Alpine assumes that hostname() always returns ASCII.

> Some system (e.g., iPhone) return UTF-8.

>

> Solution:

> Attached patches to alpine-2.00/pith/osdep/domnames.c and

> alpine-2.00/pith/osdep/hostname.c


Awesome!

Mark, do you give permission for others to redistribute these under the
same terms as Alpine, the Apache 2.0 License?

-- Asheesh.

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