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Re: mutt/2386: underscore problems of chinese filename



The following reply was made to PR mutt/2386; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Thomas Roessler <roessler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: bug-any@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: 
Subject: Re: mutt/2386: underscore problems of chinese filename
Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2006 16:11:34 +0200

 On 2006-07-25 07:54:25 +0200, sjtu_yf117@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
 
 > When viewing the attachment with chinese filename with
 > external program, the chinese words of the filename shown in
 > the title bar is underscores "__", not the correct chinese
 > words. I noticed that the attached file is in fact saved
 > temporarily in the "/tmp" directory with chinese filename
 > displayed already in underscores "__". I am not sure whether
 > this is a problem only in Debian release of Mutt.
 
 Mutt will be careful to only use known good characters in
 temporary file names, so I don't consider this a bug.
 
 Generally, I'd recommend not to rely on temporary file names
 passing around information.
 
 Sorry.
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 Thomas Roessler                              <roessler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>