From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jack Hill Subject: Character display problem in mumi and my mail client Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2019 17:23:57 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; BOUNDARY="925712948-479318695-1563398638=:9756" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:48808) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hnrP6-0005t8-3J for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Jul 2019 17:24:01 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hnrP4-0005Vn-Sn for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Jul 2019 17:24:00 -0400 Received: from minsky.hcoop.net ([104.248.1.95]:43260) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hnrP4-0005VR-P6 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Jul 2019 17:23:58 -0400 Received: from marsh.hcoop.net ([45.55.52.66]) by minsky.hcoop.net with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hnrP4-0004pL-38 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Jul 2019 17:23:58 -0400 List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: guix-devel@gnu.org This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. --925712948-479318695-1563398638=:9756 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Hi Guix, It appears that mumi (or at least the instance of it running on issues.guix.gnu.org) has problems displaying some non-ASCII characters. I noticed it with '’'. Compare https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/36207 with https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=36207 In the former, Ludo's name displays as 'Ludo¢' while it the latter, it displays correctly as 'Ludo’'. However, in Ludo's reply the character is displayed correctly. Does this indicate that my mail client (alpine on Debian Stretch) is doing the wrong thing? It seems that mumi could handle this situation better since it debbugs appears to handle it correctly. Looking at the raw mail downloaded from debbugs, I see that I'm sending mail as with the following encoding: ``` Content-Type: text/plain; FORMAT=flowed; CHARSET=ISO-8859-7 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT ``` while Ludo's mail is: ``` Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable ``` Interestingly, when I download the mbox file for my mail from debbugs, and looking at it Emacs with my en_us.UTF-8 locale, the cents-symbol appears. Using iconv to convert the file from ISO-8859-7 to UTF8, causes the correct character to display. So what looks to be happening is that mumi is interpreting my messages using the wrong encoding. Thoughts? Is this something we want to fix? This reminds me of rjbs's talk, "Email Hates the Living". [0] Best, Jack [0] http://yapcasia.org/2011/talk/59 P.S. How are we tracking issues and patches for mumi? bug-guix@ and guix-patches? --925712948-479318695-1563398638=:9756--