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

[Göran Uddeborg]

I'm occasionally calling

emacsclient ... vm-mail-to-mailto-url ...

from scripts. It works fine for simple mailto:***@domain 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?

[Uday Reddy]

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

Cheers,
Uday

Post by Göran Uddeborg
I'm occasionally calling
emacsclient ... vm-mail-to-mailto-url ...
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?