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 A9572431FB6 for ; Mon, 4 Jun 2012 03:09:21 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at olra.theworths.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: 0 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0 tagged_above=-999 required=5 tests=[none] 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 niOi609wefny for ; Mon, 4 Jun 2012 03:09:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from guru.guru-group.fi (guru.guru-group.fi [46.183.73.34]) by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C89D5431FAF for ; Mon, 4 Jun 2012 03:09:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: by guru.guru-group.fi (Postfix, from userid 501) id 3F88510014D; Mon, 4 Jun 2012 13:09:29 +0300 (EEST) From: Tomi Ollila To: Albin Stjerna , notmuch@notmuchmail.org Subject: Re: Problem with invalid characters when using notmuch-reply In-Reply-To: <87r4tvmoeq.fsf@hecate.student.uu.se> References: <87r4tvmoeq.fsf@hecate.student.uu.se> User-Agent: Notmuch/0.13.2+7~g08be9ce (http://notmuchmail.org) Emacs/23.1.1 (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) X-Face: HhBM'cA~ MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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: Mon, 04 Jun 2012 10:09:21 -0000 On Mon, Jun 04 2012, Albin Stjerna wrote: > Hi! > > I have a very confusing problem. When replying to a message containing > special characters (read: non-ascii), they show up as mysteriously > escaped characters, such as \345 (where the letter =C3=A4 should be). When > sending these replies, I get an error about my message containing > non-printable characters. When these messages arrive, the special > characters (even those I entered, that looked fine in the mail compose > buffer) are garbled. > > Everything works fine when composing a new message. The problem only > appears when replying. The problem appeared quite recently, apparently > out of nowhere. No emacs upgrade, no notmuch upgrade (as far as I can > recall). > > The problem is appears in both Emacs 23 and 24, and restart (neither of E= macs nor of my computer) doesn't help. > > Also: > albin@hecate ~ % notmuch --version > notmuch 0.13 Notmuch 0.13.1 fixed this problem -- excerpt from NEWS file: Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29) =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D Bug-fix release --------------- Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain* parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed. > > albin@hecate ~ % locale > LANG=3Den_US.utf8 > LANGUAGE=3D > LC_CTYPE=3D"en_US.utf8" > LC_NUMERIC=3D"en_US.utf8" > LC_TIME=3D"en_US.utf8" > LC_COLLATE=3D"en_US.utf8" > LC_MONETARY=3D"en_US.utf8" > LC_MESSAGES=3D"en_US.utf8" > LC_PAPER=3D"en_US.utf8" > LC_NAME=3D"en_US.utf8" > LC_ADDRESS=3D"en_US.utf8" > LC_TELEPHONE=3D"en_US.utf8" > LC_MEASUREMENT=3D"en_US.utf8" > LC_IDENTIFICATION=3D"en_US.utf8" > LC_ALL=3D > > notmuch reply (on the command line) seems to work just fine. > > Any pointers you can give me would be greatly appreciated! Thank you for the good information you provided in your report! > Thanks in advance, > Albin Tomi