[#SVC-391] llEmail and llHTTPRequest do not handle non-ASCII characters

2. Second Life Service - SVC

llEmail and llHTTPRequest do not handle non-ASCII characters

Created: 02/Jul/07 07:42 PM Updated: 31/Mar/09 01:56 PM

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Component/s:

Scripts

Affects Version/s:

1.17.0

Fix Version/s:

None

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Duplicate

This issue is original of duplicate:

~~SVC-4027~~ llEmail and IM to email mojibake (characters not sent with the righ coding)

Relates

This issue Relates to:

SVC-412 Include "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8" header in the messages forwarded from second life.

This issue is related to by:

SVC-1144 replies to offline emails can't contain unicode

SVC-4059 Identify LSL external communications functions not supporting UTF-8

Last Triaged:	31/Mar/09 08:30 AM
Linden Lab Issue ID:	DEV-29868

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llEmail and llHTTPRequest (and perhaps others?) do not translate non-ASCII characters into UTF8. A simple example is the following script:

default
{
    state_entry()
    {
        string str = llUnescapeURL( "%E5%A4%B1" );
        llOwnerSay( str );
        llEmail(  [Your email address here],  "Test of Unicode character", str  );
    }
}

The Japanese character ? will be displayed in the chat window properly, but the character in the email will be "?".

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Omei Turnbull added a comment - 03/Jul/07 10:03 AM

I guess the Jira has problems with UTF-8 also.

The last line should say that Unicode characters that are displayed properly in the viewer get converted to ? in the email.

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blaise timtam added a comment - 29/Nov/07 05:47 AM

String litterals in scripts also still not support UTF-8
a simple llSay(0, "terminé"); will cause a compile error
turnaround: read all litteral strings from a notecard. (also makes script localization easyer)

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march Korda added a comment - 02/Dec/07 05:58 PM

I think that the following issue is related about e-mail.
http://jira.secondlife.com/browse/SVC-412
Include "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8" header in the messages forwarded from second life.

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sasun steinbeck added a comment - 28/Dec/07 02:16 PM

This is incredibly annoying. Don't more than half of our users have alphabets with accented (etc.) characters? I had to work around this by calling llEscapeURL on the entire mail body and unescape it on the server end. It works, email should be able to handle foreign characters!