Subject that ends with UTF-8, 85 or A0 加

[Đoàn Trần Công Danh]

On 2022-08-02 10:06:08+0200, Bastian <bastian-muttuser at t6l.de> wrote:
> On 02Aug22 15:52+0900, Kenichi Asai wrote:
> > - prepare .mutt/muttrc containing only the following line:
> >   set edit_headers=yes
> > - launch mutt and type m to create a new mail.
> > - enter some e-mail address and a subject.
> > - vim launches.
> > - edit Subject line so that it ends with a character such as:
> >   υ or ％ or ｅ (whose last byte of their UTF-8 code is 85) or
> >   ム or 加 (whose last byte of their UTF-8 code is A0).
> 
> The mail I received shows the characters you gave here as examples as:
> 
> υ 0x3C5
> ％ 0xFF05
> ｅ 0xFF45
> ム 0x30E0
> 加 0x52A0
> 
> So only the last matches your description 'last byte is A0'

I think he meant the last byte of their utf-8 representation:
Which means: υ 0x3C5 is 0xCF 0x85 which is ended with 0x85.


> I cannot see them currently, my font does not support them. But anyways 
> I couldn't verify if these would be the characters you intended to send.
> 
> > Would it be possible to somehow avoid this problem?  I cannot avoid
> > creating e-mails with Japanese characters in Subject and this problem
> > bugs me quite much.
> 
> I think I am not able to reproduce this behavior. I appended 0x52A0 to 
> the subject line. Can you verify?

I can't reproduce either.

-- 
Danh