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Re: UTF-8 issues



On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 04:36:53PM -0500, David Yitzchak Cohen wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 01:25:18PM -0200, Carlos Laviola wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 04:07:08AM -0500, David Yitzchak Cohen wrote:
> > > 
> > > Can you try sending me a problematic email?  I get loads of email from
> > > all kinds of sources, and I haven't noticed any trouble with most mails
> > > that aren't deliberately mislabeled by the sending MUA (like Outlook
> > > likes to do, for instance).  Mutt simply assumes ISO-8859-1, AFAIK.
> > 
> > Well, sure.  There's a compressed maildir folder at
> > 
> > http://carlos.sna.cx/mutt/problematic_message.tar.gz
> 
> I took the message from there, and sendmail(1)ed it to myself.
> Sure enough, it didn't display properly, so I had to ^E on it.
> Even with that, though, the subject doesn't show up properly.  (I have
> rfc2047_parameters set, BTW.  The subject isn't individually encoded,
> though, so that has no effect here.)  Notice that the message itself
> isn't in MIME at all, so I believe a recent post (with a patch) to the
> mutt-dev list applies here: without MIME, Mutt essentially doesn't allow
> internationalized headers, unless you apply his patch (which uses the
> body charset for the header).  If you want, I'll forward you the post.
> (The web-based archives for this list suck, so you're almost certainly
> better off letting me forward the copy from my own archives to you.)

I'd really appreciate that patch.  I could also forward it to Debian's
mutt maintainer.

> > Notice it lacks Content-Type, for instance...
> 
> It lacks MIME, plain and simple.  It's technically a pre-MIME message,
> and Mutt has a totally different set of rules for it :-(

Oh, I see.  I should read the appropriate RFCs...

> > Yeah, that might be a bug in the version I run. (that has been fixed
> > already?)
> 
> beats me ... if you can forward me a sample message, I can try doing
> \e\n on it and report what happens. . .
> 
> > I guess I'll just compile mutt by hand and find out for myself, but
> > please check anyway :-)
> 
> done :-)

I've checked that same message against mutt cvs head and the problem
persists, so...

Please send me the patch :-)

Thanks again,

-- 
Carlos Laviola <carlos@xxxxxxxxxxx>

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