From: Thomas Schneider <qsx@chaotikum.eu>
To: 33612@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#33612: Gnus doesn’t display EBCDIC encoded mails correctly
Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2018 17:34:16 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <vu7c70ftvdfdyv.fsf@chaotikum.eu> (raw)
If you read this subject and ask yourself “What in the name of—?!”, yes,
exactly. This is cursed and should really not be a real-world issue,
but I still consider it a bug.
When viewing a mail whose headers and/or body is EBCDIC encoded, Gnus
does not decode it correctly.
Given this mail …
```
From: =?EBCDIC-INT?B?44iWlIGiQOKDiJWFiYSFmQ==?= <qsx@qsx.re>
To: =?EBCDIC-INT?B?44iWlIGiQOKDiJWFiYSFmQ==?= <qsx@qsx.re>
Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2018 16:55:15 +0100
Subject: =?EBCDIC-INT?B?44iJokCipIKRhYOjQImiQImVQMXCw8TJww==?=
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="EBCDIC-INT"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Message-ID: <F7A3S3POYB.3P9ZHF8WLUSKQ@coruscant.chaotikum.eu>
44iFQJikiYOSQIKZlqaVQIaWp0CRpJSXokCWpYWZQKOIhUCTgamoQISWh0sl
```
the Summary buffer shows (with gnus-summary-line-format "%U%R
%&user-date; %(%[%5k: %-23,23f%]%)%B%s\n") …
```
. T16:55:15 [ 1.0k: =?EBCDIC-INT?B?44iWlIGi] =?EBCDIC-INT?B?44iJokCipIKRhYOjQImiQImVQMXCw8TJww==?=
```
and the Article buffer shows …
```
From: =?EBCDIC-INT?B?44iWlIGiQOKDiJWFiYSFmQ==?= <qsx@qsx.re>
Sender: qsx@chaotikum.eu
To: =?EBCDIC-INT?B?44iWlIGiQOKDiJWFiYSFmQ==?= <qsx@qsx.re>
Subject: =?EBCDIC-INT?B?44iJokCipIKRhYOjQImiQImVQMXCw8TJww==?=
Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2018 16:55:15 +0100 (32 minutes, 23 seconds ago)
Message-ID: <F7A3S3POYB.3P9ZHF8WLUSKQ@coruscant.chaotikum.eu>
\343\210\205@\230\244\211\203\222@\202\231\226\246\225@\206\226\247@\221\244\224\227\242@\226\245\205\231@\243\210\205@\223\201\251\250@\204\226\207K%
```
This was copy-pasted from a terminal Emacs, it shows the raw bytes
escaped as octal numbers.
So while the decoding routines work fine on more common charsets like
UTF-8 and ISO 8859-1, they fail on EBCDIC. Not something likely to be
encountered in real life, but still.
Gnus v5.13
GNU Emacs 26.1 (build 2, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.24.1)
of 2018-10-25
next reply other threads:[~2018-12-04 16:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-12-04 16:34 Thomas Schneider [this message]
2018-12-04 17:34 ` bug#33612: Gnus doesn’t display EBCDIC encoded mails correctly Eli Zaretskii
2018-12-04 18:03 ` Andreas Schwab
2018-12-04 18:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-06-22 13:14 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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