Problem with accented characters in mailbox.Maildir()

[Chris Green]

Chris Green <cl at isbd.net> wrote:
> A bit more information, msg.get("subject", "unknown") does return a
> string, as follows:-
> 
>     Subject: =?utf-8?Q?aka_Marne_=C3=A0_la_Sa=C3=B4ne_(Waterways_Continental_Europe)?=
> 
> So it's the 'searchTxt in msg.get("subject", "unknown")' that's
> failing. I.e. for some reason 'in' isn't working when the searched
> string has utf-8 characters.  
> 
> Surely there's a way to handle this.
> 
... and of course I now see the issue!  The Subject: with utf-8
characters in it gets spaces changed to underscores.  So searching for
'(Waterways Continental Europe)' fails.

I'll either need to test for both versions of the string or I'll need
to change underscores to spaces in the Subject: returned by msg.get().
It's a long enough string that I'm searching for that I won't get any
false positives.


Sorry for the noise everyone, it's a typical case of explaining the
problem shows one how to fix it! :-)

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Chris Green
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