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

[Garjola Dindi]

Hi all,

This problem seems to have been solved recently on emacs master branch.
I am running :

GNU Emacs 28.0.50 (build 3, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.24.5,
cairo version 1.16.0) of 2021-01-19

I don't know when exactly the problem disappeared, but I recompile the
master branch on tuesdays and I would say that I haven't seen the issue
for more than a week.

Thanks to somebody ;)


> On Sun 11-Oct-2020 at 17:26:33 +02, Damien Collard
> <damien.collard@distfp.net> wrote: 
> > 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.
> You are right about the fact that not all utf-8 have the problem, but I
> have some without the format=flowed that do have the issue.
> So I don't see a common pattern. 
> >
> > 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.
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