why cannot use Chinese character in nnmail-split-methods

why cannot use Chinese character in nnmail-split-methods

[haomiao]

Hi

         I want to split my mails through  nnmail-split-methods
setting. When I use regexp all in English, everything is fine, but
when I use regexp having some Chinese charaters, the mail will not be
split into the right mail folder.
         Why this happened? How to resolve it?

         Here is my code in .gnus.el
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
(setq nnmail-split-methods
      '(("Mail.test" "^Subject:.*\\(测试\\|test\\).*")
        ("Mail.inbox" "")))
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

         Thanks.

Re: why cannot use Chinese character in nnmail-split-methods

[It's me FKtPp ;)]

haomiao <miaohaoz@ustc.edu> writes:

> Hi
>
>          I want to split my mails through  nnmail-split-methods
> setting. When I use regexp all in English, everything is fine, but
> when I use regexp having some Chinese charaters, the mail will not be
> split into the right mail folder.
>          Why this happened? How to resolve it?
>
>          Here is my code in .gnus.el
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> (setq nnmail-split-methods
>       '(("Mail.test" "^Subject:.*\\(测试\\|test\\).*")
>         ("Mail.inbox" "")))
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------

Chinese characters in Subject: header is often encoded by various
method, so... your match will be fail.
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Re: why cannot use Chinese character in nnmail-split-methods

[Reiner Steib]

On Sat, Apr 28 2007, haomiao wrote:

>          I want to split my mails through  nnmail-split-methods
> setting. When I use regexp all in English, everything is fine, but
> when I use regexp having some Chinese charaters, the mail will not be
> split into the right mail folder.
>          Why this happened? How to resolve it?
>
>          Here is my code in .gnus.el
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> (setq nnmail-split-methods
>       '(("Mail.test" "^Subject:.*\\(测试\\|test\\).*")
>         ("Mail.inbox" "")))
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------

At least in Gnus >= 5.10.* (you didn't mention your Gnus version) ...

,----[ (info "(gnus)Splitting Mail") ]
|    By default, splitting MIME-decodes headers so you can match on
| non-ASCII strings.  The `nnmail-mail-splitting-charset' variable
| specifies the default charset for decoding.  The behavior can be turned
| off completely by binding `nnmail-mail-splitting-decodes' to `nil',
| which is useful if you want to match articles based on the raw header
| data.
`----

Bye, Reiner.
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