[sylpheed:37329] Re: Unicode not treated correctly - links do not work

[Joachim Selinger]

Hello Anton,

thx for answering.

On Thu, 8 Aug 2024 13:51:58 +0300
Anton Shepelev <anton.txt at gmail.com> wrote:

AS> Joachim Selinger:
AS> 
AS> > I now tracked down my problem for not being able to open
AS> > specific links from a health service provider in sylpheed.
AS> > It is the following unicode symbol for the equal sign:
AS> >
AS> > Unicode Hex Character Code &#x3d; =
AS> > Symbol Name:  Equals Sign
AS> > Html Entity:
AS> > Hex Code:      &#x3d;
AS> > Decimal Code:  =
AS> > Unicode Group: Basic Latin
AS> 
AS> EQUALS SIGN is not specific to Unicode, but rather a basic
AS> ASCII character.

The problem was not the = sign, but its unicode encoding that wasn't decoded
properly.

AS> If it was found in an HTML e-mail, try saving the HTML
AS> attachement to HDD and examining it in the browser and text
AS> editor.

Thx, I did that and then opening the link from within the HTML was fine now!
This is a good suggestion and makes it easy to work around the problem. The
browser manages correctly to use the unicode = as an = sign and then the URL is
correct. 

Nevertheless, the way the URL is encoded does not work directly in the browser
URL input field, so firefox and chrome expect that the unicode decoding of the
= sign is done by the mail client before passing on the URL, either via click
or via 'copy link'.

Without knowing what the respective RFC says, I cannot say if Sylpheed is
working as expected or not. It would be nice anyway for sylpheed to handle
this the way the browsers expect it.

But thx to your work around suggestion, I live with it and it is at most a
priority B fix request from my side :-)

Thx
Jocki
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