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bug#56513: 28.1; Vcard in a mime part with a utf-8 charset is displayed
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Lars Ingebrigtsen |
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bug#56513: 28.1; Vcard in a mime part with a utf-8 charset is displayed incorrectly |
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Wed, 13 Jul 2022 00:32:42 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Roland Winkler <winkler@gnu.org> writes:
> Below I am re-posting an example of a vcard MIME attachment that Pascal
> had originally posted on the BBDB mailing list. The odd thing about
> these MIME attachments is that vcard properties such as "org" and "adr"
> in the example below may include "quoted-printable" paramaters as part
> of the vcard itself. So my understanding is that the decoding of the
> quoted-printable encoded strings and any subsequent coding-system
> decoding should be done by a vcard parser and not by a MUA when
> processing MIME attachments.
Ah, I see.
> The vCard format 4.0 (rfc6350) requires that vCards use utf-8, it does
> not permit other coding-systems. I do not know about earlier versions
> of the vCard format.
I've now adjusted the vcard.el parser in GNU ELPA to decode the data
using utf-8, and that seems to fix the problem.
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