Bug 4384

Summary:

U+00AD (soft hyphen) changed to space in Subject

Product:

Claws Mail (GTK 2)

Reporter:

Kim B. Heino <b>

Component:

Plugins/RSSyl

Assignee:

users

Status:

RESOLVED FIXED

Severity:

normal

Priority:

Version:

3.17.6

Hardware:

OS:

Linux

Attachments:

Description	Flags
Screenshot with wrong rendering	none
Example feed	none
proposed patch	none

Description Kim B. Heino 2020-09-17 08:48:02 UTC

Created attachment 2089 [details]
Screenshot with wrong rendering

Character U+00AD (soft hyphen) in feed title is rendered as visible space (wrong) in subject line. In message body it's not visible (correct).

Example feed: https://heino.kim/hs.fi.xml

Search for title "Myrsky iskee" and look at "pääkaupunki<U+00AD>seudulle".

Comment 1 Kim B. Heino 2020-09-17 08:49:46 UTC

Created attachment 2090 [details]
Example feed

Here's example xml feed file for above screenshot

Comment 2 Paul 2020-09-17 14:47:31 UTC

Created attachment 2092 [details]
proposed patch

proposed patch.

Be aware that, even after applying this patch, your feed's Subject lines will not be rewritten. You will need to re-subscribe to the feed to see the effects of this patch.

Comment 3 Kim B. Heino 2020-09-18 13:26:58 UTC

Thanks, proposed patch seems to work. Please apply it to next Claws Mail release.

Comment 4 Paul 2020-09-25 08:33:49 UTC

now in git