Re: [gmime-devel] Unecscaped Unicode

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj gnome org>]

Hi Robert,

It doesn't look like there's any way to not escape unicode nor does it 
look like it'll accept invalid utf-8.

Maybe it would make sense to have gmime's html filter optionally add 
blockquotes instead of doing things the way your doing it?

Can you give me an example of the input and what you want as the output? 
Do you want to nest the <blockquote>'s according to the line's citation 
depth?

Not sure how big the can of worms is that my big mouth is offering to 
implement, but if it's not too difficult maybe I can add that feature ;-)

Jeff

On 2/20/2013 9:11 PM, Robert Schroll wrote:
> Hi Jeff,
>
> Thanks for the prompt fixes!  I have another question about 
> FilterHTML, but this one isn't a bug, I swear.  As I understand it, 
> FilterHTML will either escape non-ASCII unicode characters as &#uuuu; 
> or convert them to question marks.  Is there some way to let them stay 
> encoded as UTF-8, or even to let all bytes through without checking 
> for unicode validity?  If not, should there be?
>
> I ask because I'm trying to use FilterHTML to take a plain text email 
> from the wire and convert it to HTML for display.  There's no need to 
> worry about getting the output into a 7-bit encoding, so the 
> escapement doesn't really help.  It actually gets into the way a bit: 
> I'm also trying to put <blockquotes> around the quoted sections.  I do 
> this by marking the quoted sections with a flag as I'm unwrapping the 
> flowed text before sending it through FilterHTML, and then adding the 
> HTML tags afterwards based on the flags.  My two top choices for the 
> flag would be a private unicode control character or a byte invalid in 
> unicode.  The second is completely ruled out; the first is still 
> feasible, but is less clear with the encoding going on.  (FWIW, I'm 
> using 0x7f, the DEL character, as the flag right now.  I'm not 
> expecting any emails to have this in them, but still....)
>
> Of course, if I'm going about this in a completely wrong way, please 
> say so.
>
> Thanks,
> Robert
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