Re: Changing subject lines upon reply.

Re: Changing subject lines upon reply.

[Simon Josefsson]

Ichimusai <ichi@ichimusai.org> writes:

> There are certain clients who do not handle subjects with eight bit
> chars very gracefully.

Eigth bit chars in Subjects are forbidden, so no client should
generate them.

> I was wondering, is someone sitting on a small function that could
> replace all whitespace in the Subject line with exactly one space?
>
> Example:
>   Subject: This is a æsubject line with an 8-bit char in it.
>
> After NS-munging it becomes:
>   Subject: This is a    æsubject line with an 8-bit char in it.
>
> I'd like a function that will go through the string and contract all
> extraneous white space if possible.
>
> Anyone got a suggestion?

Something like the following should work if you run it on the Subject:
contents:

(while (re-search-forward "[ \t\n]+" nil t)
  (replace-match " "))