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ruby-on-railsunicodeactionmailer
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Reputation: 5151

utf-8 and ActionMailer

I'm facing some problems with UTF-8 and ActionMailer. My application has a form (contact) that when it is submitted, it sends an email to me. The problem is that when somebody enters some chars like öäüß, I receive the message encoded like for example

 =?UTF-8?Q?funktioniert_oder_nicht.=0D=0A=0D=0Ameine_Stra=C3=9Fe_ist_die?=
 =?UTF-8?Q?_Bratwurststra=C3=9Fe=0D=0A=0D=0A=C3=B6=C3=A4?=

As I understand, ActionMailer per default is utf-8 ready. Analyzing the log from my server, when the form is submitted, the params are already well encoded (it means I can read the äüö in my log)

Any idea about what should I change? should I change my application to support ISO-8859-1?

environment: ruby 1.9 and rails 3.1

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1687

Answers (1)

Martin Vidner
Martin Vidner

Reputation: 2337

You are getting the UTF-8 bytes escaped with quoted-printable.

ß is "\xC3\x9F" -> "=C3=9F"

String#unpack('M') will decode it:

$ ruby -e 'puts "Bratwurststra=C3=9Fe=0D=0A=0D=0A=C3=B6=C3=A4".unpack "M"'
Bratwurststraße

öä

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Upvotes: 4

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