Return-Path: X-Original-To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org Delivered-To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30A77431FBF for ; Sun, 29 Mar 2015 16:11:03 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at olra.theworths.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: 0.138 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.138 tagged_above=-999 required=5 tests=[DNS_FROM_AHBL_RHSBL=2.438, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED=-2.3] autolearn=disabled Received: from olra.theworths.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (olra.theworths.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 85Z4RlEcG0Oz for ; Sun, 29 Mar 2015 16:11:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailchk-m01.uwaterloo.ca (mailservices.uwaterloo.ca [129.97.128.141]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E35C5431FAE for ; Sun, 29 Mar 2015 16:10:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from connect.uwaterloo.ca (connhub1.connect.uwaterloo.ca [129.97.149.113]) by mailchk-m01.uwaterloo.ca (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id t2TNAskJ015444 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=OK); Sun, 29 Mar 2015 19:10:56 -0400 Received: from CONNHUB3.connect.uwaterloo.ca (129.97.149.121) by connhub1.connect.uwaterloo.ca (129.97.149.113) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 14.3.210.2; Sun, 29 Mar 2015 19:10:53 -0400 Received: from uwaterloo.ca (172.16.39.52) by connhub3.connect.uwaterloo.ca (129.97.149.121) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 14.3.210.2; Sun, 29 Mar 2015 19:10:53 -0400 From: Sebastian Fischmeister To: "W. Trevor King" Subject: Re: UnicodeDecodeError with python API In-Reply-To: <20150329163658.GK22036@odin.tremily.us> References: <874mp4q7e7.fsf@uwaterloo.ca> <20150329163658.GK22036@odin.tremily.us> X-Homepage: http://esg.uwaterloo.ca Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2015 19:10:53 -0400 Message-ID: <87ego7pfia.fsf@uwaterloo.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-UUID: 46b5a45e-cab6-47fd-b184-caea11ffedce X-Miltered: at mailchk-m01 with ID 5518867E.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.98.6 at mailchk-m01 X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.4.3 (mailchk-m01.uwaterloo.ca [129.97.128.141]); Sun, 29 Mar 2015 19:10:57 -0400 (EDT) Cc: notmuch X-BeenThere: notmuch@notmuchmail.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list Reply-To: sfischme@uwaterloo.ca List-Id: "Use and development of the notmuch mail system." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2015 23:11:03 -0000 > My first guess is that the file's encoding doesn't match your locale. > Do you have a non-ASCII locale set? You can check with: It seems to be more tricky than I thought. I didn't have a locale set. When I set one, I can parse some emails with this: export LANG=en_US.latin-1 Others with this: export LANG=en_US.UTF-8 Others fail with either of the two. I can display all messages correctly in emacs though. Sebastian