Unicode characters are incorrectly reproduced when forwarding mail

Albin Stjerna albin.stjerna at gmail.com
Mon Jan 7 01:28:06 PST 2013


Tomi Ollila wrote:

> On Sat, Jan 05 2013, Albin Stjerna <albin.stjerna at gmail.com> wrote:

> > Hi!
> >
> > When forwarding an email containing (what I think is) unicode characters
> > (primarily umlauts), these are incorrectly re-entered as strange escaped
> > characters (ä becomes \344, å becomes \345 and so on). Then, when I try
> > to send the email, I get an error about the message containing
> > unprintable characters.
> >
> > Interestingly enough, this problem does not occur in the headers
> > (Subject, From etc), and the problem does not occur at all when quoting
> > messages via notmuch-reply. Also, it doesn't happen for all email
> > messages, so it might be an issue with the encoding. I think a common
> > denominator for the un-forwardable messages is that they contain no
> > charset= declaration, though they still render just fine.
> >
> > Any help debugging would be greatly appreciated!


> What version of notmuch are you using? There has been some fixes
> in this front done since 0.14 (i.e. currently only available from git)

You were right in your suggestion, the problem is apparently fixed in git notmuch. Thanks!


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