From: Antoine =?utf-8?Q?Beaupr=C3=A9?= <anarcat@orangeseeds.org>
To: David Edmondson <dme@dme.org>, Notmuch Mail <notmuch@notmuchmail.org>
Subject: Re: BUG: trouble with forwarding with accents
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Date: Sat, 06 Feb 2016 16:20:49 -0500
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On 2016-02-06 12:14:57, David Edmondson wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 05 2016, Antoine Beaupr=C3=A9 wrote:
>> So I have an accent in my family name, as you can see from the From
>> header here. This has a tendency of finding the greatest and finest
>> UTF-8 bug, and often no one believes me because they don't have that
>> interesting property.
>>
>> Notmuch has been bugging me with such a problem for ages now. When I
>> forward a mail, the accents in my name (or in the signature inserted)
>> are broken.
>
> I tried to reproduce this (by modifying my name in .notmuch-config to
> include an accented character and then forwarding your mail), but
> everything worked fine (on "GNU Emacs 24.5.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin15.0.0,
> NS apple-appkit-1404.11) of 2015-10-05 on heart-of-gold").
>
> It's tempting to ask whether or not you have any localisation or
> language settings in either your shell or emacs, but I probably wouldn't
> know how to interpret them even if so :-/

I have a french utf-8 locale:

[997]anarcat@angela:~1$ locale
LANG=3Dfr_CA.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=3D
LC_CTYPE=3D"fr_CA.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC=3D"fr_CA.UTF-8"
LC_TIME=3D"fr_CA.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE=3D"fr_CA.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY=3D"fr_CA.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES=3D"fr_CA.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER=3D"fr_CA.UTF-8"
LC_NAME=3D"fr_CA.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS=3D"fr_CA.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE=3D"fr_CA.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT=3D"fr_CA.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION=3D"fr_CA.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=3D

In a terminal and in emacs.

I am not sure if i have any emacs-specific l10n settings.

a.
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