https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=476480
Bug ID: 476480
Summary: KMail/Akonadi applies Unicode compatibility
decomposition to sender and recipient names before
sending
Classification: Applications
Product: kmailtransport
Version: unspecified
Platform: Debian unstable
OS: Linux
Status: REPORTED
Severity: normal
Priority: NOR
Component: general
Assignee: kdepim-b...@kde.org
Reporter: erin-kde@ninetailed.ninja
Target Milestone: ---
SUMMARY
When changing my identity settings KMail settings to make use of U+2004
(THREE-PER-EM SPACE / thick space) and U+2009 (THIN SPACE) to visually separate
the parts of my name I noticed that KMail shows these correctly in settings and
composer, but the actually sent messages instead use U+0020 (ASCII SPACE).
While I have not verified this in the source code I’m almost certain this is
due to KMail/Akonadi/KMailTransport applying Unicode compatibility
decomposition (NFKC normalization) before encoding the sender and recipient
names.
GitHub at least doesn’t seem to have any problems encoding these correctly and
they are displayed correctly in KMail in messages received from it. Python’s
`email.header` appears to encode it basically the same way.
In particular for the name “First Collective Last” (using the mentioned U+2004
and U+2009), the three tested implements yield:
1. KMail/Akonadi/KMailTransport: “From: First Collective Last
<email-address>” (using just ASCII spaces everywhere)
2. GitHub: “From: =?UTF-8?b?Rmlyc3TigIRDb2xsZWN0aXZl4oCJTGFzdA==?=
<notificati...@github.com>”
3. Python `email.header`: “From:
=?utf-8?b?Rmlyc3TigIRDb2xsZWN0aXZl4oCJTGFzdA==?= <email-address>“
STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Compose an email to “First Collective Last <some-email-address-of-yours>”
(copy-paste it!) in KMail – replacing the address as intended
OBSERVED RESULT
The received message has the fancy spaces replaced with the plain ASCII ones
and hence contains a “To: First Collective Last <some-email-address-of-yours>”
as a header, discarding the extra information originally entered
EXPECTED RESULT
The fancy quotes should remain and be encoded instead.
SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Linux/KDE Plasma: Debian unstable
KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.104.0
Qt Version: 5.15.8
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