From: Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi>
To: Albin Stjerna <albin.stjerna@gmail.com>,
Notmuch Mail Mailing List <notmuch@notmuchmail.org>
Subject: Re: Unicode characters are incorrectly reproduced when forwarding mail
Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2013 11:03:33 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m21ue0xaqi.fsf@guru.guru-group.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8738yg3t90.fsf@hecate.student.uu.se>
On Sat, Jan 05 2013, Albin Stjerna <albin.stjerna@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> When forwarding an email containing (what I think is) unicode characters
> (primarily umlauts), these are incorrectly re-entered as strange escaped
> characters (ä becomes \344, å becomes \345 and so on). Then, when I try
> to send the email, I get an error about the message containing
> unprintable characters.
>
> Interestingly enough, this problem does not occur in the headers
> (Subject, From etc), and the problem does not occur at all when quoting
> messages via notmuch-reply. Also, it doesn't happen for all email
> messages, so it might be an issue with the encoding. I think a common
> denominator for the un-forwardable messages is that they contain no
> charset= declaration, though they still render just fine.
>
> Any help debugging would be greatly appreciated!
What version of notmuch are you using? There has been some fixes
in this front done since 0.14 (i.e. currently only available from git)
Tomi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-01-05 9:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-05 8:54 Unicode characters are incorrectly reproduced when forwarding mail Albin Stjerna
2013-01-05 9:03 ` Tomi Ollila [this message]
2013-01-05 9:23 ` Albin Stjerna
2013-01-07 9:28 ` Albin Stjerna
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