[Portland-bugs] [Bug 40041] New: Thunderbird 5 needs unescaped addresses

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40041

           Summary: Thunderbird 5 needs unescaped addresses
           Product: Portland
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: x86-64 (AMD64)
        OS/Version: Linux (All)
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: medium
         Component: xdg-utils
        AssignedTo: portland-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
        ReportedBy: tbzatek at redhat.com


Created an attachment (id=50158)
 View: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/attachment.cgi?id=50158
 Review: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/review?bug=40041&attachment=50158

proposed patch

Thunderbird 5 (and probably also TB 3) expects unescaped strings passed for
To:, Cc: and BCc: fields. With the current xdg-email version Thunderbird uses
escaped strings as addresses. This is not true for Subject and Body fields
where strings are properly unescaped by TB itself. Truly inconsistent
behaviour.

The attached patch unescapes address fields back to plain text. I don't think
this is the cleanest solution but it's not intrusive at least. Proper way could
be to pass original strings directly (saving them aside when parsing
commandline args) but the script architecture would need to be altered.

Current behaviour:
> $ XDG_UTILS_DEBUG_LEVEL=99 ./xdg-email --to 'John Doe <nobody at example.cz>' --cc 'Copy machine <nobody at example.cz>' --bcc 'Big Brother <nobody at example.cz>' --subject 'Hello world!' --body 'Hi, this is the body.'
> Running thunderbird -compose "to='John%20Doe%20<nobody at example.cz>,',cc='Copy%20machine%20<nobody at example.cz>,',bcc='Big%20Brother%20<nobody at example.cz>,',subject=Hello%20world%21,body=Hi%2C%20this%20is%20the%20body."

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