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From: Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>
Cc: "Bjørn Mork" <bmork@dod.no>, bugs@gnus.org, bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: bad rfc2047 encoding
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 19:55:17 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ilun0repym2.fsf@latte.josefsson.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <rzq4rdncdta.fsf@albion.dl.ac.uk> (Dave Love's message of "22 Aug 2002 12:50:41 +0100")

Dave Love <d.love@dl.ac.uk> writes:

>> I remember it didn't cope with non-ASCII properly at all.
>
> In what way?  I went through checking for such problems long ago.  I
> doubtless missed some, and maybe some have been added since, but they
> should be easy to fix.  (Emacs 21 only -- I don't know how you'd do it
> properly in XEmacs.)

I don't have a failing test case, but I remember some discussion of
this recently.

>> > In this example the quoted-string should probably be unquoted and
>> > then encoded. Or would that break something?
>> 
>> It could perhaps encode the quotes too.
>
> The spirit of the RFC and examples seem to suggest unquoting the
> string, encoding it, and (perhaps) re-quoting encoded word sequences
> on decoding.  Is the correct behaviour really not explicitly specified
> somewhere?

I dunno.  Ask on some IETF list?

      parent reply	other threads:[~2002-08-22 17:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-08-15 22:00 bad rfc2047 encoding Dave Love
     [not found] ` <ilu8z36li3m.fsf@latte.josefsson.org>
2002-08-20 17:02   ` Dave Love
2002-08-20 17:22     ` Simon Josefsson
2002-08-21 16:54       ` Dave Love
2002-08-21 17:06         ` Simon Josefsson
2002-08-21 17:40           ` Reiner Steib
2002-08-22 11:47           ` Dave Love
2002-08-22 17:48             ` Simon Josefsson
2002-08-30 18:08               ` Dave Love
     [not found]       ` <hvofbxtmpd.fsf@rasputin.ws.nextra.no>
2002-08-21 17:14         ` Simon Josefsson
2002-08-22 12:20           ` Dave Love
     [not found]           ` <rzq4rdncdta.fsf@albion.dl.ac.uk>
2002-08-22 13:50             ` Bjørn Mork
2002-08-30 17:59               ` Dave Love
2002-08-22 17:55             ` Simon Josefsson [this message]

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