Re: [VM] vm-url-decode-buffer and UTF-8

[Uday Reddy]

Hi Göran, is this now taken care of by the bug fix you have filed on
Launchpad?

Cheers,
Uday

Göran Uddeborg writes:

> I'm occasionally calling
> 
>     emacsclient ... vm-mail-to-mailto-url ...
> 
> from scripts.  It works fine for simple mailto:address@hidden URL:s.  But
> if the URL also includes some non-ASCII, e.g. in a subject= argument,
> then this string gets mangled.  More exactly, the UTF-8 encoded
> character in the string gets treated as multiple single characters.
> 
> If I understand things correctly, this boils down to
> vm-url-decode-buffer doing the decoding in that way.  It looks for one
> %XX escape, and does insert-char on the decoded value.  That makes a
> UTF-8 sequence consisting of more than one byte become several
> characters.
> 
> Has anyone else been hit by this or something similar?  And, in
> particular, has anyone any idea how to fix the problem?
>