Hi There,
I have an odd issue with the way actionmailer does multibyte conversion on mail subject lines.
I have two debian boxes, both running ruby 1.8.2-7sarge2 and Rails 1.0.0.
I set up a unit test to check exactly what was happening to the subject line of the mail:
def test_notify_with_strange_chars users = User.find_all @story = Story.new @story.title = "Ho`ohanohano I Na Kupuna Puwalu ‘Elua: Ke Kumu Ike Hawai’i" @story.depttitle = "Science" @story.summary = "jolly good" @story.detail = "really jolly" @story.user = @bob @story.save response = StoryMailer.create_notify(MockController.new,users,@story) assert_equal '['+CommunitySystem::CONFIG[:app_name]+':story] '+ @story.title, response.subject assert_match /stories\/show\/1/, response.body #assert_match /New Password: #{newpass}/, response.body assert_equal users.map{|u| u.email}, response.bcc assert_equal 'multipart/alternative', response.content_type end
Now this passes just fine on one box, but on the other I get this error:
1) Failure: test_notify_with_strange_chars(StoryMailerTest) [./test/unit/story_mailer_test.rb:73:in `test_notify_with_strange_chars' ./test/unit/../test_helper.rb:165:in `run' ./test/unit/../test_helper.rb:163:in `each' ./test/unit/../test_helper.rb:163:in `run' ./test/unit/../test_helper.rb:165:in `run' ./test/unit/../test_helper.rb:163:in `each' ./test/unit/../test_helper.rb:163:in `run']: <"[disCourse:story] Ho`ohanohano I Na Kupuna Puwalu \201eElua: Ke Kumu Ike Hawai\201fi"> expected but was <"[disCourse:story] Ho`ohanohano I Na Kupuna Puwalu \302\201eElua: Ke Kumu Ike Hawai\302\201fi">.
which looks very much like the single byte unicode are being converted to multibyte unicode on this box.
Has anyone got any idea what might cause one box to act differently to the other? I assume there is some library somewhere that is causing this discrepancy. Any tips on where to look?
The reason this is a problem is that the presence of these multibyte characters in the mail header lead the mails to be sent out with blank subject lines,. presumably because the ruby mailer can't handle them or something.
Many thanks in advance.