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Frank Schmitt <usereplyto@Frank-Schmitt.net> writes:

> There's an other case where gnus-url-mailto fails: It doesn't decode
> encoded "html-characters" and 8bit characters encoded with the
> &...;-sgml-syntax like in
> "mailto:Paul%20Kr&auml;mer%20&lt;foo@schlurps.de&gt;"

Do you mean in plain text or HTML email?

In plain text SGML entities have no special meaning, so the above is
just an invalid URL.  For HTML this is something the HTML renderer
(w3, w3m etc.)  should translate.