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From: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
To: =?utf-8?B?w4Z2YXIgQXJuZmrDtnLDsA==?= Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Feature R/BUG: Auto uri_unescape() & utf8 handling
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Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> wrote:
> Feature request:
> 
> It would be neat to be able to right click on highlighted msgids in
> the "what's cooking e-mails" in GMail and paste them into public
> inbox, unfortunately Chrome copies this URL escaped, so you get e.g.:
> 
> https://public-inbox.org/git/?q=%3CCACBZZX4UUwzRQmyH8joYaqHnuVTjVtGBHp%252BiZKcnAnwoM_ZJhg%40mail.gmail.com%3E
> 
> Whereas that doesn't work because it's seacrhing for a URI escaped
> msgid that contains + converted to %2B
> 
> Whereas unescaping it works:
> 
> https://public-inbox.org/git/?q=CACBZZX4UUwzRQmyH8joYaqHnuVTjVtGBHp%2BiZKcnAnwoM_ZJhg%40mail.gmail.com
> 
> I don't know if it breaks anything else but calling uri_unescape()
> would work for these sort of msgids, but then of course searching for
> %2b wouldn't work, hrm...

I wonder if it could fall back to auto-unescape if it sees '%'
and can't find any messages, or use an OR query.

Fwiw, I've actually been thinking about doing auto-linkification
for messages (and maybe other things).