#772757 Unicode text in reply links incorrectly URL-encoded

Package:
debbugs
Source:
debbugs
Submitter:
Josh Triplett
Date:
2015-02-22 18:39:07 UTC
Severity:
normal
#772757#3
Date:
2014-12-10 20:01:20 UTC
From:
To:
First of all, *thank you* for the reply links; they're wildly useful.

See https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=762194#413 for an
example of this issue.  Notice that the mail has a section marker symbol
(§) in it.  The mailto link uses the following URL encoding:
%C3%82%C2%A7

That encoding translates to §.  This looks like the result of taking
the section symbol (U+00A7), encoding it as two bytes of UTF-8 (0xC2
0xA7), then interpreting each of those two bytes as a character and
encoding those as UTF-8 (0xC3 0x82 0xC2 0xA7).

- Josh Triplett
#772757#6
Date:
2014-12-10 22:21:21 UTC
From:
To:
No problem! I was dubious myself originally, but I'm now a convert.x

Heh. Yeah, that looks suspiciously like double-encoding.

I'll check this out in a bit.
#772757#11
Date:
2014-12-10 23:03:09 UTC
From:
To:
Now I just the reply links on lists.debian.org did the same; they set up
the reply headers properly, but they don't include the quoted message,
and they add an extra "Re: " even if the subject already starts with
one.

Thanks!

- Josh Triplett