Hi Michael,

I also fell over this a while ago. (cf. http://notmuch.198994.n3.nabble.com/Encodings-td3159281.html)
Your patch certainly fix the immediate error, but there is ore to the problem:
Tagstrings seem to be the only ones stored by notmuch as-is, so unlike
headers, they don't get converted to utf-8. The patch that lead to
this .decode('utf-8') was pushed a bit too hastily.
As Uwe mentiones in above cited thread, we could consider enforcing
tags to be utf-8..

best,
/p


On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 02:11:41PM +0000, Michael Heinrich wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> with current head I get following error in my python scripts when I read the
> tags of a message:
> 
>   File "/home/heinrich/.local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/notmuch/tag.py", line
> 88, in next
>     tag = Tags._get(self._tags).decode('utf-8')
> 
> 
> Here is a patch:
> 
> diff --git a/bindings/python/notmuch/tag.py b/bindings/python/notmuch/tag.py
> index 65a9118..e9049fc 100644
> --- a/bindings/python/notmuch/tag.py
> +++ b/bindings/python/notmuch/tag.py
> @@ -85,10 +85,12 @@ class Tags(object):
>              raise NotmuchError(STATUS.NOT_INITIALIZED)
>          # No need to call nmlib.notmuch_tags_valid(self._tags);
>          # Tags._get safely returns None, if there is no more valid tag.
> -        tag = Tags._get(self._tags).decode('utf-8')
> +        tag = Tags._get(self._tags)
>          if tag is None:
>              self._tags = None
>              raise StopIteration
> +        else:
> +            tag = tag.decode('utf-8')
>          nmlib.notmuch_tags_move_to_next(self._tags)
>          return tag
>  
> 
> Michael.
> 
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