Bug 266941 – Mutt messes up names of attachments with non-English characters

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Lubos Kolouch 2009-04-21 06:16:12 UTC]

When I receive in mutt attachments with non-English characters, the name of the attachments is destroyed - it looks like this :

=?iso-8859-2?Q?Seznam_adres=E1t=F9_News=F9.xls?=

This makes it difficult to save the attachment (must rename it) or forward - then the recipients on MS systems cannot open it as the file extension is not clear. I must save & rename each attachment and reattach again.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Receive email with attachment having non-English characters
2.Try to save or forward
3.No profit!

Actual Results:  
Attachment has wrong name
=?iso-8859-2?Q?Seznam_adres=E1t=F9_News=F9.xls?=

Expected Results:  
Attachment has name like
Seznam_adresátů_News.xls

[Comment 1 Rafał Mużyło 2009-04-21 11:14:05 UTC]

Google for "mutt rfc2047_parameters", read the manpage
and teach people, that send you such mails how to
properly configure their mail clients (or switch
to a different ones, if former is not possible).

[Comment 2 Lubos Kolouch 2009-04-21 11:23:47 UTC]

Thank you for, sorry to say, stupid comment.

Please switch your mind to real world where you have zero influence on your customers that want to send you email.

[Comment 3 Lubos Kolouch 2009-04-21 11:49:22 UTC]

OK, besides the second part, the rfc2047_parameters
indeed fixed the problem :)

thank you