#767989 hylafax-client: sendfax should cope with UTF-8 by default

Package:
hylafax-client
Source:
hylafax
Description:
Flexible client/server fax software - client utilities
Submitter:
Ralph Aichinger
Date:
2014-11-03 22:21:06 UTC
Severity:
minor
#767989#5
Date:
2014-11-03 22:16:07 UTC
From:
To:
You describe how to send UTF-8 in README.Debian. I really think
this should be the default, if the dependencies are not too heavy,
as most systems have UTF-8 as a default encoding by now.

This might be less of a problem in some locales, but e.g. almost
every German text makes the sendfax program trip. For German
the text filter is of very little use in practice.

If this is not possible, a more descriptive error message
would be good, the current

foo: Can not determine file type

is not all too helpful.
0	byte		0x89		ps
						pnmscale -xysize %w %l | \
						pnmtops -dpi %R -equalpixels >%o
0	long		0x59a66a95	tiff	ras2tiff -%f -v %V %i %o
0	short		0x1b45		pcl
0	short		0x1b25		pcl
0	short		0x1b26		pcl
0	short		0x1b2a		pcl
0	string		%PDF		pdf
0	string		x T psc		ps	psdit <%i >%o
0	string		begin		error	uuencoded file support not configured
0	string		xbtoa		error	btoa'd file support not configured
0	string		P1		ps	ppmtopgm < %i | \
						pnmscale -xysize %w %l | \
						pnmtops -dpi %R -equalpixels > %o
0	string		P2		ps	ppmtopgm < %i | \
						pnmscale -xysize %w %l | \
						pnmtops -dpi %R -equalpixels > %o
0	string		P3		ps	ppmtopgm < %i | \
						pnmscale -xysize %w %l | \
						pnmtops -dpi %R -equalpixels > %o
0	string		P4		ps	ppmtopgm < %i | \
						pnmscale -xysize %w %l | \
						pnmtops -dpi %R -equalpixels > %o
0	string		P5		ps	ppmtopgm < %i | \
						pnmscale -xysize %w %l | \
						pnmtops -dpi %R -equalpixels > %o
0	string		P5		ps	ppmtopgm < %i | \
						pnmscale -xysize %w %l | \
						pnmtops -dpi %R -equalpixels > %o
0	string		P6		ps	ppmtopgm < %i | \
						pnmscale -xysize %w %l | \
						pnmtops -dpi %R -equalpixels > %o
0	string		WNGZWZSS	error	Wingz spreadsheet support not configured
0       string          #Inventor V	error	IRIS Inventor file support not configured
						-Ml=0.4in -p 11 -s %s >%o <%i
0	short		0xffd8		error	filetype conversion support not configured
						pnmscale -xysize %w %l | \
						pnmtops -dpi %R -equalpixels > %o
0	short		0xd8ff		error	filetype conversion support not configured
0	string		#FIG		ps	fig2dev -L ps -p x -M -N -z %s < %i > %o
0	ascii		x		ps	enscript -B -f Consolas-Bold@11 \
						--margins=24::60:36 -s 2.2 \
						-q -M A4 -p %o %i