[sylpheed:37328] Re: Unicode not treated correctly - links do not work

Joachim Selinger:

> I now tracked down my problem for not being able to open
> specific links from a health service provider in sylpheed.
> It is the following unicode symbol for the equal sign:
>
> Unicode Hex Character Code = =
> Symbol Name:  Equals Sign
> Html Entity:
> Hex Code:      =
> Decimal Code:  =
> Unicode Group: Basic Latin

EQUALS SIGN is not specific to Unicode, but rather a basic
ASCII character.

> Within a link it is no correctly parsed and instead of an
> equal sign it is just left out. Example: (cut out from the
> real one)

A way to reproduce the problem would come in handy.  For
example, does your Sylpheed fail to open the following link
with the equals sign?--

  <https://www.amazon.com/s?k=books>

> Within a link it is no correctly parsed and instead of an
> equal sign it is just left out. Example: (cut out from the
> real one)
>
> https://somedomain.app/?....oiZGUifQ&amp;v&#x3D;3&amp;fetchLast&#x3D;false&amp;ref&#x3D;email
>
> When clicking on the link to pass it to the browser or
> even when selecting and and manually pasting it as a link
> to the browser, the = is gone and the ampersand is
> correcly mapped.

If it was found in an HTML e-mail, try saving the HTML
attachement to HDD and examining it in the browser and text
editor.