147671 - EBCDIC -coded messages aren't displayed/interpreted

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(Core :: Internationalization, defect)

Description

[Frank Widmaier]

someone tried to post a "x-ebcdic-germany" coded article in a newsgroup
(de.comm.software.newsreader)

I can't find a posibility to decode it. I think, this feature should be added

e.g. <[e-mail]>

[ ... cut ... ]
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=EBCDIC-AT-DE
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
User-Agent: recode/inews
[ ... cut ... ]
nnnn%=E2=A5=85=95@=C7=96=A3=A3=A6=81=93=84@L=97=93=85=80=A2=85K=A4=A2=85K=
=99=85=97=93=A8`=A3=96K=84=85n@=A6=99=96=A3=85%\@=D8=A4=96=A3=89=95=87@=C1=
=95=84=99=85=81=A2@=D4=85=A3=A9=93=85=99@L=81=94=85=A3=A9=93=85=99=80=84=96=
=A6=95=88=89=93=93K=81=A3K=85=A4K=96=99=87nz%nn@=81=A2=83=89=89`=E9=85=89=
=83=88=85=95@=92=81=95=95@=89=83=88@=94=89=A3@=A9K=C2K@=99=85=83=96=84=85@=
[ ... cut ... ]


another Person started the thread. His postings may be destroyed with coding
them. I can't check it.
Starting Thread: <[e-mail]>

you should check up, what "chars" the posters have quoted, when answering to all
ebcdic-coded messages (several in thread)

Comment 1

[Boris 'pi' Piwinger]

System indepenend.

And I think, it is MIME.

pi

Comment 2

[Jean-Francois Ducarroz]

cc'ing nhotta

Comment 3

[nhottanscp]

I think this is not mail specific.
I think we don't have a converter. 

Comment 4

[Boris 'pi' Piwinger]

I don't know how charsets are implemented, but if it is just a question of
translation tables (unicode to whatever) I can attach several EBCDIC tables
later today.

pi

Comment 5

[Boris 'pi' Piwinger]

Attachment: ebcdic.tgz

Various EBCDIC dialects.

pi

Comment 6

[Frank Tang]

I simply don't understand how can anyone support any EBCDIC on newsgroup. the
"=" itself is not a  EBCDIC "="
mark this bug simply won't fix. 

Comment 7

[Trix Supremo]

verifying wontfix