Subject: bug#72442: 31.0.50; Gnus or message.el doesn't handle international message reply subject prefixes and insults users

From: Robert Pluim <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2024 11:46:26 +0200

>>>>> On Sat, 03 Aug 2024 20:19:48 +0300, Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> said:

    >> From: Björn Bidar <[email-masked]>
    >> Cc: [email-masked]
    >> Date: Sat, 03 Aug 2024 19:58:46 +0300
    >> 
    >> Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:
    >> 
    >> > FWIW, Rmail does support the various ways of saying "Re:", so the code
    >> > could be lifted from there.

So does message, you just have to configure
`message-subject-re-regexp'. The message manual contains an
appropriate setting.

    >> 
    >> Would it make sense to move regexp and intermittent variable to
    >> message.el or mail-utils.el?
    >> 
    >> I would assume the latter.

    Eli> The latter, yes.  But note that Rmail does that for 2 different
    Eli> purposes and in 2 different functions AFAIR.

We could just add the example from the manual to the `defcustom' for
`message-subject-re-regexp' (and also align it with whatever Rmail
does).

Robert
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