Comment 0 for bug 124944

Package: logcheck
Version: 1.2.31
Severity: wishlist

Hi,

Apparently logcheck doesn't set a charset for the mail's contents in the
mail headers. This causes the mail software to misinterpret certain
messages. For instance, my system is set to a Spanish UTF-8 locale,
and gconfd's translated messages use non-ASCII characters; this causes
funny characters to appear in the mails I receive from logcheck:

Nov 22 12:54:23 localhost gconfd (jkohen-4008): Se recibió la señal
SIGHUP, recargando todas las bases de datos

If our MUAs work fine, you should see "se<A~><+->al" instead of
the expected "señal." Where <xy> are composed characters.

Assuming that all system processes and daemons run with the same locale,
adding the following header to the mails should fix this problem:
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="<system charset>"

Where the system charset is in the form US-ASCII, UTF-8, ISO-8859-1, etc.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.9
Locale: LANG=es_AR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=es_AR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages logcheck depends on:
ii adduser 3.59 Add and remove users and groups
ii cron 3.0pl1-86 management of regular background p
ii debconf [debconf 1.4.40 Debian configuration management sy
ii debianutils 2.10.3 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
hi exim4 4.34-4 An MTA (Mail Transport Agent)
ii exim4-daemon-lig 4.34-5 Lightweight version of the Exim (v
hi lockfile-progs 0.1.10 Programs for locking and unlocking
ii logcheck-databas 1.2.31 A database of system log rules for
ii logtail 1.2.31 Print log file lines that have not
ii mailx 1:8.1.2-0.20040524cvs-1 A simple mail user agent
ii perl 5.8.4-2.3 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
ii sysklogd [system 1.4.1-16 System Logging Daemon

-- debconf information:
  logcheck/changes:
* logcheck/install-note:

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Javier Kohen <email address hidden>
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