GNU bug report logs - #77866
30.0.50; message.el handling of non-ascii names in addresses

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Al Haji-Ali <abdo.haji.ali <at> gmail.com>

Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2025 13:01:04 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: fixed

Found in version 30.0.50

Fixed in version 31.1

Done: Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #20 received at 77866 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com>
To: Al Haji-Ali <abdo.haji.ali <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 77866 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#77866: 30.0.50; message.el handling of non-ascii names in
 addresses
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2025 09:40:14 +0200

>>>>> On Thu, 17 Apr 2025 16:45:25 +0100, Al Haji-Ali <abdo.haji.ali <at> gmail.com> said:

    Abdo> On 17/04/2025, Robert Pluim wrote:
    >> The root cause of this is that `mail-encode-encoded-word-buffer' is
    >> using the `mime' method to encode the value, instead of the
    >> `address-mime' method. Thatʼs because youʼve written the "Cc" header
    >> name as "CC", and the lookup for the method based on the header name
    >> is being done case-sensitively. Patch below fixes it for me (it also
    >> helps if you put a newline at the end of the string youʼre testing)

    Abdo> Yep, can confirm your patch fixes the issue. Thanks!

Thanks for testing. Maintainers, since this bug has been around
basically forever, I guess the fix goes to master, not the release
branch?

Thanks

Robert
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