On 30-09-2016, at 00h 28'03", Konstantin Ovsov wrote about "Re: attachments name non english symbol" > On Thu, 29 Sep 2016, 10:44:19, Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă wrote: > > > > Do you forward only the attachments? How do you do that? > > Yes, only forwarded attachments. I press 'v' (view-attachments), select the > attachment, press 'f' and send a mail.
Interesting, Konstantin. I did not know that :-) > But the other reason. If the filename of the attachment is not > POSIX-compatible, Mutt substitutes for all not POSIX-symbols on '_'. I can confirm that. I created a file with the name "з" (Russian zet) and I send it myself. In the email, I selected the attachment and press f to forward the attachment. The attachment name was changed to __. I did the same with a filename called ' ' (just a space). The filename was changed into _. I repeated the process with a filename măr (apple in Romanian). The filename was changed into m__r. Annoying, indeed... > Thank you again, Ionel. > What I can tell you is that 1. mutt_sanitize_filename is not UTF-8 aware (otherwise з would be replaced with one _ and not two. 2. I do not think you can disable the usage of mutt_sanitize_filename from mutt variables. You will need to alter the code and re-compile. Searching with google mutt_sanitize_filename will give some ideas. If you create a patch you can reuse it everytime you wish to install a new version of mutt. 3. A work-around: create a copy of the message. Delete the unwanted attachments. Forward the entire message with F. The filename will keep. Good luck. Ionel
