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

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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>

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