Bug 100216 - xdg-email: Must not url-encode subject for Thunderbird
Summary: xdg-email: Must not url-encode subject for Thunderbird
Status: RESOLVED MOVED
Alias: None
Product: Portland
Classification: Unclassified
Component: xdg-utils (show other bugs)
Version: 1.1.0 rc3
Hardware: All Linux (All)
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Assignee: Portland Bugs
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Reported: 2017-03-15 16:00 UTC by h.goebel
Modified: 2019-02-16 13:38 UTC (History)
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Scrrenshot of Thunderbird subject when running xdg-email --utf8 --subject "Hällö" (5.14 KB, image/png)
2017-03-15 16:00 UTC, h.goebel
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Screenshot as of 2018-06-20 (3.16 KB, image/png)
2018-06-20 08:28 UTC, h.goebel
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Description h.goebel 2017-03-15 16:00:03 UTC
Created attachment 130232 [details]
Scrrenshot of Thunderbird subject when running xdg-email --utf8 --subject "Hällö"

Creating a mail with Thunderbird using

   xdg-email --subject "Hällö"

or

  xdg-email --utf8 --subject "Hällö"

gives a subject of

  H%E4ll%F6

(see attached picture).

I would expect the Subject to be "Hällö".

Environment:
- Thunderbird 38.3.0
- de_DE.UTF-8  (any other UTF-8 locale should do)
Comment 1 Gabriel Corona 2018-05-09 19:03:22 UTC
Tried to reproduce this but it's working correctly. Can you still reproduce this?
Comment 2 h.goebel 2018-06-20 08:28:13 UTC
Created attachment 140244 [details]
Screenshot as of 2018-06-20

As of 2018-06-20 the behaviour as changed but is still wrong for both with and without `--utf-8`. See new screenshot. It looks like xdg-open passes a latin-1 character code.

* xdg-utils 1.1.3
* thunderbird 52.8.0
  - menu: view -> text encoding: "unicode"
  - preferences: Display -> Formatting -> Fints & Colors -> Advanced 
     -> Text Encoding -> Outgoing: Unicode (UTF-8)
* system's locale is set to UTF-8
Comment 3 GitLab Migration User 2019-02-16 13:38:43 UTC
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