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Subject: Re: Non-ASCII characters in Subject lines
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> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2009 12:28:42 -0400
> 
> > Is it allowed by the RFCs to have non-ASCII characters in the Subject
> > line of an email message?
> 
> You mean to have bytes >127 ?

Yes.

> > Rmail currently doesn't decode this part, but maybe it should.
> 
> Such headers appear occasionally, and IIUC Gnus decodes them with the
> some default coding system, but I don't think it's high priority.

OK, thanks.