Fix garbled non-MIME-encoded UTF-8 headers#10078
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Messages with charset=windows-1251 (quoted-printable encoding) display as garbled text in Roundcube. Other clients (Thunderbird, K-9, mutt) display them correctly. `get_message_part()` already converts body charset to UTF-8, but `format_part_body()` converts it again using `$part->charset` which still contains the original charset (e.g. windows-1251). This double conversion produces garbled output. Check `mb_check_encoding()` before converting — if body is already valid UTF-8, skip conversion. Roundcube 1.6.13 + Stalwart mail server, windows-1251 quoted-printable messages now display correctly. Similar UTF-8 detection approach used in roundcube#10078.
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@alecpl I cleaned up the PR description. Previous one was too verbose and slop. Would you review this PR? Thank you. |
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| // RFC 6532: detect raw UTF-8 in headers to avoid wrong charset conversion | ||
| if ($fallback !== false && mb_check_encoding($input, 'UTF-8') && preg_match('/[\x80-\xFF]/', $input)) { |
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You should not assume RCUBE_CHARSET is always UTF-8.
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Then should we change to
$default_charset = 'UTF-8';
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I have rebased and applied that part.
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for that I had to force push, sorry if it made you inconvenient
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decode_mime_string()blindly applies the body charset to non-MIME-encoded headers. If the header is raw UTF-8 but the body charset differs, the header gets corrupted.Check for valid UTF-8 before falling back to the body charset, same approach as Thunderbird's
convert8BitHeader(): https://searchfox.org/comm-central/source/mailnews/mime/jsmime/jsmime.mjs#675RFC 6532 (2012) legitimizes raw UTF-8 in email headers via SMTPUTF8 extension.
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