"Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64" does not decode properly

[Moses Moore]

Ubuntu Release: 11.04
Claws-Mail version: 3.7.8-1ubuntu4

Expected:
Email message sent to my mailbox with base64 encoding displayed as legible ASCII. Specifically: "I would have called, but I lost your number when I switched phones."

Observed:
Email message with base64 encoding displayed as illegible ASCII noise. Specifically: "V¦
]=çt’v÷VÆB†fR6ÆÆVBÂ'WB’Æ÷7B–÷W"çVÖ&W"v†Vâ’7v—F6†VB†öæW2â"

Steps to reproduce:
 - Ask a friend using a smartphone/ cel-network palmtop computer (ie. RIM Blackberry) to send you an email.
 - Some sites using MS Outlook + MS Exchange will also use Content-Transfer-Encoding base64, esp. sites that automatically attach vcards to outgoing mail.
 - Use Claws-Mail to check message that arrives.

Further information:
Developers claim a similar problem with uudecoding on systems using unsigned *char has been fixed upstream in version 3.7.9 (see http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/claws-mail/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2331 ). Unconfirmed if this solves the problem described in this report.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: claws-mail 3.7.8-1ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-11.48-generic-pae 2.6.38.8
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-11-generic-pae i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Aug 21 21:03:07 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/claws-mail
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_CA:en
 LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: claws-mail
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-04-01 (142 days ago)