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From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
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Subject: encoding of message-ids
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I spent a little time this morning staring at the code, and it seems
that all of the message-ids are parsed via g_mime_decode_text, which
deals with RFC2047 encodings and makes guesses at decoding 8bit
characters. In practice this means that in the notmuch database all
headers are UTF-8. Since message-id's are supposed to be printable ascii
[at least in rfc5322], this seems like not such a terrible decision, but
I wonder if we should document this potential conversion somewhere?

d