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authorJan Engelhardt <[email protected]>2024-05-21 13:55:06 +0000
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vmime: prevent loss of a space during text::createFromString (#306)
``` mailbox(text("Test München West", charsets::UTF_8), "[email protected]").generate(); ``` produces ``` =?us-ascii?Q?Test_?= =?utf-8?Q?M=C3=BCnchen?= =?us-ascii?Q?West?= <[email protected]> ``` The first space between ``Test`` and ``München`` is encoded as an underscore along with the first word: ``Test_``. The second space between ``München`` and ``West`` is encoded with neither of the two words and thus lost. Decoding the text results in ``Test MünchenWest`` instead of ``Test München West``. This is caused by how ``vmime::text::createFromString()`` handles transitions between 7-bit and 8-bit words: If an 8-bit word follows a 7-bit word, a space is appended to the previous word. The opposite case of a 7-bit word following an 8-bit word *misses* this behaviour. When one fixes this problem, a follow-up issue appears: ``text::createFromString("a b\xFFc d")`` tokenizes the input into ``m_words={word("a "), word("b\xFFc ", utf8), word("d")}``. This "right-side alignment" nature of the whitespace is a problem for word::generate(): As per RFC 2047, spaces between adjacent encoded words are just separators but not meant to be displayed. A space between an encoded word and a regular ASCII text is not just a separator but also meant to be displayed. When word::generate() outputs the b-word, it would have to strip one space, but only when there is a transition from encoded-word to unencoded word. word::generate() does not know whether d will be encoded or unencoded. The idea now is that we could change the tokenization of ``text::createFromString`` such that whitespace is at the *start* of words rather than at the end. With that, word::generate() need not know anything about the next word, but rather only the *previous* one. Thus, in this patch, 1. The tokenization of ``text::createFromString`` is changed to left-align spaces and the function is fixed to account for the missing space on transition. 2. ``word::generate`` learns how to steal a space character. 3. Testcases are adjusted to account for the shifted position of the space. Fixes: #283, #284 Co-authored-by: Vincent Richard <[email protected]>
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