[Users] [Bug 4484] New: nonascii char in message text causes blank send message

[Rolf Turner]

On Mon, 31 May 2021 14:27:48 +0000
noreply at thewildbeast.co.uk wrote:

> https://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/claws-mail/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4484
> 
>             Bug ID: 4484
>            Summary: nonascii char in message text causes blank send
>                     message
>            Product: Claws Mail
>            Version: 3.17.8
>           Hardware: PC
>                 OS: Linux
>             Status: NEW
>           Severity: normal
>           Priority: P3
>          Component: UI/Compose Window
>           Assignee: users at lists.claws-mail.org
>           Reporter: Peter.T.Breuer at gmail.com
> 
> This has been around for ages and ages, and I have put up with it
> enough... HOW does one stop the send message disappearing completely
> (aka, turning into a blank text) if one accidentally includes a
> non-ascii character in the message, as composed by the external
> editor (vim, in an xterm, via xterm -e vim)?
> 
> There is no backup made. It does not go into Drafts. It looks like
> the issue is with the pipe to the send/composition window from the
> editor.
> 
> If I remember, I save the text while still in vim. Then if it
> disappears (nonascii characters can be too subtle to spot by eye), I
> can copy it into the send/composition window later directly from the
> file I made.  Otherwise it is Goodbye and Bless You to the text I
> just laboriously composed. The editor terminates OK so there is no
> recovery text made.
> 
> Is there some configuration option that is responsible? I have
> searched and searched without seeing anything that looks applicable.
> Please figure some way to stop this - or at least TELL me about it!
> 
> PTB
> 
> Running debian unstable on i386:
> 
> ii  claws-mail                      3.17.8-1+b1  i386         Fast,
> lightweight>
> ii  claws-mail-acpi-notifier:i386   3.17.8-1+b1  i386
> Laptop's Mail
> LED>
> ii  claws-mail-address-keeper:i386  3.17.8-1+b1  i386         Address
> keeper
> pl>
> ii  claws-mail-archiver-plugin:i386 3.17.8-1+b1  i386
> Archiver plugin
> f>
> ii  claws-mail-attach-remover:i386  3.17.8-1+b1  i386         Mail
> attachment
> r>
> un  claws-mail-doc                  <none>       <none>       (no
> description
> a>
> un  claws-mail-extra-plugins        <none>       <none>       (no
> description
> a>
> un  claws-mail-i18n                 <none>       <none>       (no
> description
> a>
> ii  claws-mail-pdf-viewer:i386      3.17.8-1+b1  i386         PDF and
> PostScrip>
> un  claws-mail-tools                <none>       <none>       (no
> description
> a>
> un  claws-mail-vcalendar-plugin     <none>       <none>       (no
> description
> a>
> 

I do not seem to have this problem.  E.g. I did

echo \U+1D15F

(to get a quarter note symbol; that's not ascii, surely) and copied and
pasted the result, as below:

                  𝅘𝅥  

This seems to have been sent just fine.

cheers,

Rolf Turner

P.S. I'm running claws-mail version 3.17.7 under Ubuntu 20.04
with the Mate 1.24.0 desktop.

R. T.

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