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HTML entity quoting in text/plain emails #1722

Open hvds opened 4 years ago

hvds commented 4 years ago

In the text/plain component of notification emails from github, some characters in the text are still escaped as if for HTML.

Here's the start of the text/plain component of the notification email for a recent pull request of mine on the Perl/perl5 repo:

  This has panicked on DEBUGGING builds since 56fcde2d6ae (August 2013);
  as far as I know we've never seen the panic. It is easy to verify the
  possible node types with "grep -P '\bV\b' regcomp.sym".

This makes it unnecessarily difficult to read the text.

hvds commented 4 years ago

Support advises that they've been able to reproduce this with pull request notifications and have escalated this to the engineering team; they don't have an ETA on a fix right now.