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Re: Encoding Convertor failed for utf-7 to utf-8

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Oh, finally a real Ruby question here in Usenet! :-)

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 something in docs.

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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Encoding Convertor failed for utf-7 to utf-8 Suresh G <sureshggg@gmail.com> - 2018-05-09 07:52 -0700
  Re: Encoding Convertor failed for utf-7 to utf-8 Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2018-05-10 13:06 +0200
    Re: Encoding Convertor failed for utf-7 to utf-8 Suresh G <sureshggg@gmail.com> - 2018-05-10 23:41 -0700

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