Franz Fellner <alpine.art.de@gmail.com> writes:

>
> 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).

In general notmuch relies on libgmime for rfc2047 parsing.  I'm not sure
of all the details now, but some of the filtering does happen in the
CLI, not the lib.  You could start by looking at
gmime-filter-headers.[ch] in the top directory.

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