Bug 3220

Summary: UTF-8 chars encoded in From: header
Product: Claws Mail (GTK 2) Reporter: José María Mateos <chema>
Component: SMTPAssignee: users
Status: RESOLVED INVALID    
Severity: trivial    
Priority: P3    
Version: 3.9.3   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Linux   
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Description José María Mateos 2014-06-25 11:23:31 UTC
Created attachment 1412 [details]
Gmail not displaying text outside the UTF-8 block

My name is José María Mateos. That name is encoded in the From: header of mails sent using Claws-mail as:

From: =?UTF-8?B?Sm9zw6kgTWFyw61h?= Mateos <chema@rinzewind.org>

My surname is not included in the UTF-8 block. Gmail displays these e-mails as shown on the attached screenshot: the surname is missing.

If I change my name to Jose María Mateos (just the middle word containing UTF-8 chars), it works fine. It also works fine if I enclose my name (written corretly) in quotes.

I'm filling this bug with claws-mail because I don't know if this is the standard way of encoding headers or if the whole name should be placed inside the UTF-8 block. If this is not a bug, I'll file it with the Google people.
Comment 1 Paul 2014-06-25 11:40:53 UTC
It's a gmail bug. See RFC 2047.