[PATCH] test: Add test for searching of uncommonly encoded messages

[Michal Sojka]

On Fri, 24 Feb 2012, Serge Z wrote:
> 
> Quoting Michal Sojka (2012-02-24 11:00:02)
> >I'm not big fan of adding "preprocessor". First, I thing that both
> >reasons you mention are actually bugs and it would be better to fix them
> >for everybody than requiring each user to configure some preprocessor.
> >Second, depending on what and how would your preprocessor do, the
> >initial mail indexing could be a way slower, which is also nothing that
> >people want.
> >
> >Do you have any other use case for the preprocessor besides utf8 and
> >html->text conversions?
> >
> >Cheers,
> >-Michal
> 
> Well, I don't want to add any external preprocessor too.
> 
> This may be considered as an architectural decision: search engine should not
> access messages directly, but through some preprocessing layer which would
> handle the case of different encodings in body and headers, RFC2047-encoded
> headers (if this is not handled yet) etc.
> 
> Anyway, this solution imho would be nice to be concluded inside a separate
> library

Yes, this library is called gmime and notmuch already make use of it.

-Michal