From 7ab2a9d3144a61909eebc1e0c5e8dbb562fc98b4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dan Beard <5148750+DanBeard@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2025 21:34:54 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Added check for msgpack strings in case LXMF client sent that
 for their name

---
 LXMF/LXMF.py | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/LXMF/LXMF.py b/LXMF/LXMF.py
index db0edb7..d6385ca 100644
--- a/LXMF/LXMF.py
+++ b/LXMF/LXMF.py
@@ -115,6 +115,9 @@ def display_name_from_app_data(app_data=None):
                     if dn == None:
                         return None
                     else:
+                        # if it was packed as a string, then we don't need to decode it
+                        if isinstance(dn, str):
+                            return dn
                         try:
                             decoded = dn.decode("utf-8")
                             return decoded