Description of Problem: When I have system language set to swedish, swedish messages are starting to show up here and there, for example in commands that anacron runs. Unfortunately the emails that anacron sends do not have charset properly indicated. This leads to broken non-ascii characters in popular email clients. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): anacron-2.3-23 How Reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. create a cronscript in /etc/cron.daily containing for example the line 'LANG=sv_SE.UTF-8 chmod 0 /nonexistant' 2. Wait for anacron to run the script and send mail. The fourth word should include ä but doesn't 3. Actual Results: The raw utf-8 sequence is displayed in the sent mail due to missing charset email header Expected Results: The fourth word should include ä Additional Information: I believe the correct way to do this is to always include Content-Type: text/plain; charset=CHARSET in all email sent from anacron. The CHARSET value should be fetched from nl_langinfo(3)
I added an untested patch to address this in anacron-2.3-28. Could you please test it is ok, and if so close the bug?