Re: [gmime-devel] Unecscaped Unicode

[Robert Schroll <rschroll gmail com>]

Thanks for thinking about this, Jeff.  I want to emphasize that the 
current implementation works, at least as long as there are no DEL 
characters in the email.  (And if you send an email with DEL characters, 
you deserve to have it mangled!)  So anything you do for GMime should 
make sense in the larger sense, and not just be a fix for this 
(non-)problem.

On 02/22/2013 12:08 PM, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> Hmm, I think I understand what you're doing better now but I'm not sure
> I want to have a flag to define the quote char. That doesn't seem like
> the right solution.
>
> Could you, instead of using a magic char, using a magic string? If you
> generate a randomish string then you could be fairly confidant that it
> wouldn't be in the message text. Then you could just look for that same
> string in the blockquote filter.

Looking for a string is slightly more complicated than for a single 
character, but there's no reason that wouldn't work.  But if I'm going 
to look for a string, I might as well just put in a unicode control 
character before the FilterHTML and look for the character entity on the 
other side.
> I could also add a flag like GMIME_FILTER_HTML_ALLOW_UTF8 which would
> pass utf8 through without encoding as entities:

This would make this last approach a bit more symmetric, since we'd be 
looking for the same thing on either side.  If it ends up in FilterHtML, 
we might utilize it.  But only bother if you see this as a generally 
useful feature -- there's plenty of ways to do what we need to right now.

Thanks,
Robert