Franz Fellner <alpine.art.de@gmail.com> writes: > On Dienstag, 23. Juli 2013 11:30:28 CEST, Eric Abrahamsen wrote: >>> I have a problem with notmuch-vim (now: git master from 10 min. ago) >>> (also with alot and ner, not with 'notmuch show' or notmuch-emacs). >>> UTF-8-encoded From: (at least) does not show Umlauts but a weird >>> encoded-string. ... >> >> Looks like rfc 2047, which is a way of encoding non-ASCII characters in >> message headers. Gmail does the same thing, and I've had to work around >> that in emacs/gnus. >> >> http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2047.txt > > OK, thx. So every app needs to get patched to display those strings properly? Any chance this could be done directly in libnotmuch? > I grepped for "2047" inside te "emacs" subtree, but found nothing (had > the hope for a comment for the workaround). Would be interesting to > see how this is done, so I can at least try to create a patch (though > my ruby is quite basic). The version of gnus I'm using (git) comes with a rfc2047.el file, with all the appropriate functions. That might be of interest, even if the solution ends up being in the basic library... http://git.gnus.org/cgit/gnus.git/tree/lisp/rfc2047.el