From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D169431FBC for ; Tue, 23 Jul 2013 23:44:42 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at olra.theworths.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: 0.865 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.865 tagged_above=-999 required=5 tests=[RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001, RCVD_NUMERIC_HELO=0.865] autolearn=disabled Received: from olra.theworths.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (olra.theworths.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id XgxsP5evrEqc for ; Tue, 23 Jul 2013 23:44:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 57B51431FB6 for ; Tue, 23 Jul 2013 23:44:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1V1soM-0002Oq-W1 for notmuch@notmuchmail.org; Wed, 24 Jul 2013 08:44:34 +0200 Received: from 114.250.130.112 ([114.250.130.112]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 24 Jul 2013 08:44:34 +0200 Received: from eric by 114.250.130.112 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 24 Jul 2013 08:44:34 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org From: Eric Abrahamsen Subject: Re: UTF-8 in mail headers (namely FROM) sent by bugzilla Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2013 14:44:56 +0800 Message-ID: <878v0wqwwn.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> References: <08cb1dcd-c5db-4e33-8b09-7730cb3d59a2@gmail.com> <871u6psjwr.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <5712cc41-d0ce-4ed3-af1c-37cf639dd9c0@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 114.250.130.112 User-Agent: Gnus/5.130008 (Ma Gnus v0.8) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:lWwSRt8mIAHHPagJzibMwDGHdzU= X-BeenThere: notmuch@notmuchmail.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: "Use and development of the notmuch mail system." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2013 06:44:42 -0000 Franz Fellner writes: > On Dienstag, 23. Juli 2013 11:30:28 CEST, Eric Abrahamsen wrote: >>> I have a problem with notmuch-vim (now: git master from 10 min. ago) >>> (also with alot and ner, not with 'notmuch show' or notmuch-emacs). >>> UTF-8-encoded From: (at least) does not show Umlauts but a weird >>> encoded-string. ... >> >> Looks like rfc 2047, which is a way of encoding non-ASCII characters in >> message headers. Gmail does the same thing, and I've had to work around >> that in emacs/gnus. >> >> http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2047.txt > > OK, thx. So every app needs to get patched to display those strings properly? Any chance this could be done directly in libnotmuch? > I grepped for "2047" inside te "emacs" subtree, but found nothing (had > the hope for a comment for the workaround). Would be interesting to > see how this is done, so I can at least try to create a patch (though > my ruby is quite basic). The version of gnus I'm using (git) comes with a rfc2047.el file, with all the appropriate functions. That might be of interest, even if the solution ends up being in the basic library... http://git.gnus.org/cgit/gnus.git/tree/lisp/rfc2047.el