Re: [sup-devel] [issue132] strange encoding error

[Gaute Hope <eg@gaute.vetsj.com>]

Excerpts from anonymous's message of 2010-11-23 11:36:48 +0100:
> 
> New submission from anonymous:
> 
> this happens when i try to send an email...
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> --- Encoding::CompatibilityError from thread: main
> incompatible character encodings: UTF-8 and ASCII-8BIT
> /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/rmail-1.0.0/lib/rmail/serialize.rb:112:in
> `serialize_low'
> /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/rmail-1.0.0/lib/rmail/serialize.rb:99:in `block in

Hi,

ran into the same problem today; this seems to be a problem with rmail.
Apply this patch to the installed gem:


diff -ru rmail-1.0.0/lib/rmail/serialize.rb rmail-1.0.0-new//lib/rmail/serialize.rb
--- rmail-1.0.0/lib/rmail/serialize.rb	2011-03-22 01:08:07.413333337 +0100
+++ rmail-1.0.0-new//lib/rmail/serialize.rb	2011-03-22 01:07:45.183333337 +0100
@@ -109,6 +109,7 @@
         @output << message.header.to_s
         unless message.body.nil?
           @output << "\n"
+          message.body.force_encoding 'UTF-8'
           @output << message.body
           if depth == 0 and message.body.length > 0 and
               message.body[-1] != ?\n
 
Best regards,
Gaute Hope