[Users] Save attachment replacing spaces with X - alternate character requested

wwp subscript at free.fr
Fri May 25 19:18:58 CEST 2018


Hello,


On Fri, 25 May 2018 10:05:09 -0700 Chad Wallace <cwallace at lodgingcompany.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 25 May 2018 11:19:09 +1200
> flyingrhino <flyingrhino at orcon.net.nz> wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 12 May 2018 07:16:23 +0200
> > wwp <subscript at free.fr> wrote:
> >   
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > 
> > > On Sat, 12 May 2018 10:58:02 +1200 flyingrhino
> > > <flyingrhino at orcon.net.nz> wrote:   
> > > > When saving attachments, claws replaces spaces in the filename
> > > > with 'X' . Is there a config item somewhere that I can use '_'
> > > > instead of 'X' ? I can't seem to find it in clawsrc.
> > > > 
> > > > I'm using claws 3.11.1 which is the latest on LM 17.3 repos.    
> > 
> > I've found an instance of email attachment that does this.
> > And I think I've found the problem too:
> > I am using munpack to save the attachments, so this shows where the
> > 'X' are coming from.  
> 
> It looks like you'd have to recompile munpack from source to change
> that character.  The "X" is hard-coded in unixos.c, in the
> os_newtypedfile function.

The use of X there is definitely a strange choice.. :-D.


Regards,

-- 
wwp
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