Bug: problem decoding some non-ascii characters in subjects

Jani Nikula jani at nikula.org
Fri Feb 8 03:21:47 PST 2013


On Fri, 08 Feb 2013, Albin Stjerna <albin.stjerna at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've been noticing that notmuch has some problems decoding certain
> strangely-encoded non-ascii characters in certain emails. For example,
> today I got this: [BIBLIST] Digitaliseringensprojektens skadliga
> f=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=F6rk=E4rlek_f=F6r_?= PDF-formatet (should be
> rendered: »Digitaliseringsprojektens skadliga förkärlek för
> PDF-formatet«).
>
> Apparently, some metadata is passed on to help the MUA decode the
> string, but notmuch doesn't seem to handle it. Entire emails can of
> course be supplied as needed.

Please copy paste the Subject: header directly from the message file.


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