Re: Incorrect rendering of accented characters in HTML e-mail (Gnus)

[Damien Collard]

I have the problem on some utf-8 non-multipart messages, not all of
them. It looks like only those that have format=flowed exhibit the
problem, but disabling it (by setting mm-fill-flowed to nil) doesn't
change anything.

On Sun, Oct 11 2020, Garjola Dindi wrote:

> Sorry for the previous post. Long lines with multipart messed up the
> nntp post. Here it goes again.
>
> On Sun 11-Oct-2020 at 09:15:11 +02, Damien Collard
> <damien.collard@distfp.net> wrote: 
>> Hello,
>>
>> On Sat, Oct 10 2020, Garjola Dindi wrote:
>>
>>> I have also noticed that the I also have the same issue with non html
>>> e-mails. I thought they were html, but they are just multipart.
>>
>> I have the same problem -- for some e-mails, not all of them.
>
> I confirm that this does not happen with all e-mails. Only for messages
> with a "multipart" enclosure but not all of them. A quick check tells me
> that the problem appears with
>
> ,----
> | < #multipart type=mixed>
> | < #part type=text/plain format="flowed" charset="utf-8"
> | disposition=inline nofile=yes> 
> `----
>
> and
>
> ,----
> | < #multipart type=alternative>
> | < #part type=text/plain format="flowed" charset="utf-8"
> | disposition=inline nofile=yes> 
> `----
>
> But not for this one
>
> ,----
> | < #multipart type=alternative>
> | < #part type=text/plain charset="iso-8859-1" disposition=inline
> | nofile=yes>
> `----
>
> So I guess that the problem is the utf-8 encoding.
>
>>
>> Using nnmaildir and offlineimap like you are.
>>
>> I *think* I started having this problem after upgrading to Emacs 27,
>> but I'm not sure...
>>
>
> I am on emacs git master branch and I have been having the problem for
> several months now, so this is coherent with your guess.
>
>> I'll post here again if I find a solution. In the meantime, I have
>> adopted your "dummy edit" function.
>
> What I understand is that:
> 1. html is not the issue, but the multipart, since the text/plain part
>    also gets incorrectly encoded
> 2. only happens when charset is utf-8 and not iso-8859-1
> 3. only happens with nnmaildir, since I have used nnimap to download the
>    same messages from the same server and they are correctly displayed
>    by Gnus
> 4. since the «dummy edit» works, this means that the issue is corrected
>    when emacs opens the message in edit mode
>
> Thanks for any feedback.