Re: [gmime-devel] Decoding UTF-8 headers

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj gnome org>]

On 07/17/2011 08:26 AM, Dirk-Jan C. Binnema wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have some messages which have invalidly encoded fields -- basically fields
> incorrectly claiming they are utf8. e.g
>
>    Subject: Re: =?utf-8?B?UGlk5HR0ZWv2IHR59nN05G5uZT8=?=
>
> which causes GMime (at least v 2.4.24) to return non-valid utf8. I worked
> around this in my code by checking, and (ugly hack) replacing non-utf8 with
> dots, but it'd be nice if GMime could guarantee that whatever it returns is
> always valid UTF8.

Ugh, yea, I agree. I was afraid that might happen. Thanks for bringing 
it to my attention.

Jeff