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BUG: Errors with special chars in German: ö ä ü #70

Closed cutzenfriend closed 4 years ago

cutzenfriend commented 4 years ago

Sending Mails with "Umlaute" in German has some UTF8 issues.

While using NANO as editor and creating the message everything looks normal. After sending the words in the message looks like this:

für instead of für

Any idea?

ThomasHabets commented 4 years ago

Curious. I'm from Sweden so I've put quite some effort into getting this right, both incoming and outgoing emails.

Are you saying your outgoing messages are getting this, incoming, or both? Does it affect the subject line, the body, or both?

(so that's four combinations in total)

I just sent an email from cmdg with some "åäöü" in both subject and body, with VISUAL set to nano, and it seems to work just fine. I even tried setting LC_ALL=de_DE.utf8 and it still worked.

My testing is mostly on Debian, with gnome-terminal.

Could you be more specific about which OS, terminal, and language settings, as well as exactly where the characters get garbled?

ThomasHabets commented 4 years ago

And you're running cmdg from HEAD?

cutzenfriend commented 4 years ago

Hi, thanks for the fast reply!

I'm using cmdg on a Macbook :) Terminal is iTerm2.

The issues was just for outgoing mails, subject line & body. But I fixed it by using "micro" as the editor instead of "nano". I think it's a nano issue on mac.

I'm currently using version 1.0

ThomasHabets commented 4 years ago

Yeah I think it must be an issue with nano, then.

I'll try to do a new release soon, with 1.01. Something relevant to you that was fixed since 1.0 is better support for extended characters in email addresses. 1.0 has a bug where "reply-all" sometimes won't work in this case.

ThomasHabets commented 4 years ago

You could send me an email at thomas@habets.se using nano, but I expect that all I can do is look at that and say "yup, that's encoded wrong".