mhonarc-users

Re: mhonarc -scan producing unwanted output for iso-8859-1 special characters

2005-02-14 09:33:41
Just checking on this - 
given that my final output is a webpage that is iso-8859-1 encoded,
what advice is there for producing good output from mhonarc -scan ?

Michael

On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 05:05:19PM -0500, Michael de Beer wrote:
However, when I do
  shell> mhonarc -quiet -nolock -reverse -scan -outdir www/2005/02

It produces subject lines like
  =?iso-8859-1?q?Norwegischer_Bischof_Gunnar_J=2E_St=E5lsett_feier?=

That is not what I want -- I want it to produce the subject like the
mhonarc output pages.

-scan is for terminal-based examination of archive contents.  

Yes.

It does not invoke CHARSETCONVERTERS since CHARSETCONVERTERS is
designed for conversion to HTML, not plain text.

OK

Will you provide more information on how you utilize -scan output?
It may help in determining what the best solution to your problem is.

I use it to create a web page that has an index of the last 20 posts. 
See http://www.wfn.org/

mhonarc -scan output is parsed and rewritten by a perl script
everytime there is a new post.

Thanks for your advice,

BTW, if iso-8859-1 is the default encoding for the messages you
archive, you may want to look at the DECODEHEADS resource.  You could
instruct mhonarc to decode the non-ASCII encoded text before storing
the data in the archive.  Therefore, when doing -scan, the non-encoded
form the text will be shown.

I'm not clear on this.  Given that I'm creating a web page, 
do you think this is the right way?

Michael