From: Jeffrey Stedfast <jestedfa@microsoft.com>
To: Sebastian Poeplau <sebastian.poeplau@eurecom.fr>,
"notmuch@notmuchmail.org" <notmuch@notmuchmail.org>
Subject: Re: Handling mislabeled emails encoded with Windows-1252
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2018 14:09:19 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <DA63786E-755F-4ABA-84A0-B420BAEAA4CE@microsoft.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8736w91jz0.fsf@tethera.net>
Hi all (sent his to David already using Reply instead of Reply-All, d'oh!),
GMime actually comes with a stream filter (GMimeFilterWindows) which can auto-detect this situation.
In this particular case, you'd instantiate the GMimeFilterWindows like this:
filter = g_mime_filter_windows_new ("iso-8859-1");
"iso-8859-1" being the charset that the content claims to be in.
Then you'd pipe the raw (decoded but not converted to utf-8) content though the filter and afterward call g_mime_filter_windows_real_charset (filter) which would return, in this user's case, "windows-1252".
Hope that helps,
Jeff
On 7/23/18, 9:49 PM, "notmuch on behalf of David Bremner" <notmuch-bounces@notmuchmail.org on behalf of david@tethera.net> wrote:
Sebastian Poeplau <sebastian.poeplau@eurecom.fr> writes:
> Hi,
>
> This email is to suggest a minor change in how notmuch handles text
> encoding when displaying emails. The motivation is the following: I keep
> receiving emails that are encoded with Windows-1252 but claim to be
> ISO 8859-1. The two character sets only differ in the range between 0x80
> and 0x9F where Windows-1252 contains special characters (e.g. “quotation
> marks”) while ISO 8859-1 only has non-printable ones. The mislabeling
> thus causes some special characters in such emails to be displayed with
> a replacement symbol for non-printable characters.
Hi Sebastian;
Everyone's mail situation is unique, but I haven't noticed this
problem. Do you have a mechanical (e.g. scripted) way of detecting such
mails? I suppose it could just look for characters in the range 0x80 to
0x95 in allegedly ISO_8859-1 messages. A census of the situation in my
own mail would help me think about this problem, I think.
David
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-07-24 14:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-07-14 12:40 Handling mislabeled emails encoded with Windows-1252 Sebastian Poeplau
2018-07-24 1:49 ` David Bremner
2018-07-24 8:00 ` Sebastian Poeplau
2018-07-24 13:55 ` Sebastian Poeplau
2018-07-24 14:09 ` Jeffrey Stedfast [this message]
2018-07-24 14:19 ` Sebastian Poeplau
2018-07-28 11:22 ` Sebastian Poeplau
2018-07-28 12:25 ` Jeffrey Stedfast
2018-07-30 7:28 ` Sebastian Poeplau
2018-07-30 7:47 ` Sebastian Poeplau
2018-07-31 9:07 ` David Bremner
2018-07-31 9:49 ` Sebastian Poeplau
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