Re: 8bits characters in From headers

In <[email protected]>,
    Matt Anton wrote:
> It seems that tin 1.7.5 has a weird behaviour while From headers have
> 8bits characters and "Cache NNTP overview files locally" feature is used.

> If the cache in $TIN_HOMEDIR/.news-<nntp_server> is empty, 8bits
> characters are correctly shown in From headers,

this is a bug

> but if it isn't then 8bits
> characters are replaced by a question mark.

and this is a feature:

raw 8bit chars are not allowed in news-headers and as they can cause
trouble (e.g. the data contains ESC-seq and is displayed via
news_headers_to_display [1]) they are replaced; looks like I missed the code
when the 'data' is not comming from an overview record.

[1] if anyone is going to 'fix' the news_headers_to_display-code in a
    way that raw 8bit chars can't confuse the terminal anymore we could
    remove the conversion in read_overview() as the rest of the display
    code takes care about printable chars itself.

urs
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