• curious handling of quotation marks in the addressbook interface

    From dpb@brannerchinese.com@21:1/5 to All on Thu Dec 23 19:23:56 2021
    Some email senders have their name in quotes, and when I add them to the addressbook the result looks incorrectly processed. For instance, a message from

    "TEXT HERE " <login@domain.com>

    ends up in the addressbook interface as:

    Nickname :
    Fullname : ", "TEXT HERE
    Fcc :
    Comment :
    Addresses : "\"TEXT HERE \"" <login@domain.com>

    Both the Fullname and Addresses fields appear to be mishandling the quotation marks. Is this a known issue? Is there a current fix for it?

    Thanks.

    - dpb

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  • From Adam H. Kerman@21:1/5 to d...@brannerchinese.com on Fri Dec 24 04:48:55 2021
    d...@brannerchinese.com <dpb@brannerchinese.com> wrote:

    Some email senders have their name in quotes, and when I add them to the >addressbook the result looks incorrectly processed. For instance, a
    message from

    "TEXT HERE " <login@domain.com>

    ends up in the addressbook interface as:

    Nickname :
    Fullname : ", "TEXT HERE
    Fcc :
    Comment :
    Addresses : "\"TEXT HERE \"" <login@domain.com>

    Both the Fullname and Addresses fields appear to be mishandling the
    quotation marks. Is this a known issue? Is there a current fix for it?

    Some editing is required when storing that entry.

    My name is quoted because of the ".". If it weren't there, it wouldn't
    be quoted. Nevertheless, there is no reason to store an addressbook
    entry with quotes as the alpine composer would add them as needed.

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  • From Eduardo Chappa@21:1/5 to d...@brannerchinese.com on Fri Dec 24 08:58:56 2021
    On Thu, 23 Dec 2021, d...@brannerchinese.com wrote:

    Some email senders have their name in quotes, and when I add them to the addressbook the result looks incorrectly processed. For instance, a
    message from

    "TEXT HERE " <login@domain.com>

    ends up in the addressbook interface as:

    Nickname :
    Fullname : ", "TEXT HERE
    Fcc :
    Comment :
    Addresses : "\"TEXT HERE \"" <login@domain.com>

    Both the Fullname and Addresses fields appear to be mishandling the
    quotation marks. Is this a known issue? Is there a current fix for it?

    Dear dpb,

    if you do not mind, could you send me a real life example? I have tried
    to reproduce the issue you point out, exactly with the data you provided
    but my Alpine handles it correctly. I tried adding a perido as Adam
    suggested and also a non 8-bit character.

    Would you mind sending me real data that shows the problem? Thank you.

    --
    Eduardo
    https://tinyurl.com/yc377wlh (web)
    http://repo.or.cz/alpine.git (Git)

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  • From dpb@brannerchinese.com@21:1/5 to Eduardo Chappa on Fri Dec 24 10:47:25 2021
    On Friday, December 24, 2021 at 11:58:59 PM UTC+8, Eduardo Chappa wrote:

    if you do not mind, could you send me a real life example?

    Two examples sent off-list.

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  • From Eduardo Chappa@21:1/5 to d...@brannerchinese.com on Fri Dec 24 18:39:10 2021
    On Fri, 24 Dec 2021, d...@brannerchinese.com wrote:

    On Friday, December 24, 2021 at 11:58:59 PM UTC+8, Eduardo Chappa wrote:

    if you do not mind, could you send me a real life example?

    Two examples sent off-list.

    Thank you dpb, I have analyzed your messages and the problem is that the "personal name" part is quoted and encoded. When alpine decodes it, it is
    the first time it finds the quotes, but it keeps them as part of the name,
    so when you take the address to the addressbook they reverse and have the
    weird look.

    I am solving this problem by removing the quotes before they are offered
    to you for saving in the addressbook.

    A commit of the solution of this issue will be released soon.

    Thank you!

    --
    Eduardo
    https://tinyurl.com/yc377wlh (web)
    http://repo.or.cz/alpine.git (Git)

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