I am getting Encoding::ConverterNotFoundError, when try to convert utf-7 string to utf-8.something in docs.
I have a requirements of parsing the email and display the the email in rails app. I am using the gem https://github.com/mikel/mail for parsing the email. This is looking like core ruby issue, I thought to discuss understand here.
Can somebody explain why there is no default converter for utf-7 to utf-8?. As utf-7 is mostly used in Emails, this should be there by default. If there is option to write custom Encoding::Converter, what is the procedure for it, I couldn't get
Oh, finally a real Ruby question here in Usenet! :-)something in docs.
On 09.05.2018 16:52, Suresh G wrote:
I am getting Encoding::ConverterNotFoundError, when try to convert utf-7 string to utf-8.
I have a requirements of parsing the email and display the the email in rails app. I am using the gem https://github.com/mikel/mail for parsing the email. This is looking like core ruby issue, I thought to discuss understand here.
Can somebody explain why there is no default converter for utf-7 to utf-8?. As utf-7 is mostly used in Emails, this should be there by default. If there is option to write custom Encoding::Converter, what is the procedure for it, I couldn't get
I cannot remember having seen an UTF-7 email. In my neck of the woods
it is usually either ASCII or some ISO-8859-1 variant.
"UTF-7, a 7-bit encoding sometimes used in e-mail, often considered
obsolete (not part of The Unicode Standard, but only documented as an informational RFC, i.e., not on the Internet Standards Track either);"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode#Unicode_Transformation_Format_and_Universal_Coded_Character_Set
I would say, either you are dealing with an obscure source of emails or
you mistook another format for UTF-7.
Cheers
robert
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