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From: Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>
Cc: bugs@gnus.org, bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: bad rfc2047 encoding
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 19:48:52 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ilur8gqpywr.fsf@latte.josefsson.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <rzqadnfcdzc.fsf@albion.dl.ac.uk> (Dave Love's message of "22 Aug 2002 12:47:03 +0100")

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

> Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:
>
>> "To: \"=?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=, K (Kai)\"
>>   <Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE>
>>  "
>
> Well, that's invalid too.

Ouch, bad.

>> This is with EMACS_21_1_RC.
>
> I was using your patch (in a non-vanilla 21.2).  It looks as though
> some of the insufficiently-tested changes I made for Emacs 22 were
> responsible for the differences, sorry.  I think that just indicates
> in another way that rfc2047.el doesn't DTRT.  I guess the use of Emacs
> charsets saves it from going badly wrong in this case by chance, but
> it's not generally right.  It's coding systems which are
> (more-or-less) equivalent to MIME charsets and need to be checked, not
> Emacs charsets.

Yes.  It would be nice to have it do the right thing, but it seem to
require at least a fairly working rfc 2822 parser/decoder.  Lots of
work, I think.  Anyone want to work on it?

  reply	other threads:[~2002-08-22 17:48 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 [this message]
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

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