From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: UTF-8 problem with rmail From line Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 18:01:31 +0200 Message-ID: References: <19e566510902100616k41ed569bga094b4eb828560a7@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1234281736 31999 80.91.229.12 (10 Feb 2009 16:02:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 16:02:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: =?UTF-8?B?xLBzbWFpbCBEw7ZubWV6?= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 10 17:03:31 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LWv4o-00062T-Oi for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 10 Feb 2009 17:03:11 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41092 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LWv3U-0006S6-TO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 10 Feb 2009 11:01:48 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LWv3Q-0006RM-AK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Feb 2009 11:01:44 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LWv3N-0006Qs-I7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Feb 2009 11:01:43 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=46574 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LWv3N-0006Qp-Ct for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Feb 2009 11:01:41 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout6.012.net.il ([84.95.2.16]:33697) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LWv3M-0002cE-MH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Feb 2009 11:01:41 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.i-mtaout6.012.net.il by i-mtaout6.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0KEU00900WSZH300@i-mtaout6.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Feb 2009 18:01:59 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.126.128.7]) by i-mtaout6.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0KEU000BAXV9GW60@i-mtaout6.012.net.il>; Tue, 10 Feb 2009 18:01:58 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <19e566510902100616k41ed569bga094b4eb828560a7@mail.gmail.com> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (1203?) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:108962 Archived-At: > Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 16:16:01 +0200 > From: =3D?UTF-8?B?xLBzbWFpbCBEw7ZubWV6?=3D >=20 > cartman:x:1000:1000:=C4=B0smail D=C3=B6nmez,,,:/home/cartman:/bin/z= sh >=20 > Now in emacs when I do C-x m , I see the following: >=20 > From: "=3D?utf-8?Q?=3DC4=3DB0smail_D=3DC3=3DB6nmez?=3D" > To: > Subject: > --text follows this line-- >=20 >=20 > So the name is pretty much garbage now. Is this somehow expected or= is it a bug? That's not garbage, that's how non-ASCII characters in email addresse= s need to be encoded. The problem is that mail transport does not allow (or at least didn't allow in the past) non-ASCII characters in any of the mail headers, because various mail servers need to look at the headers. So Emacs encodes the non-ASCII characters in quoted-printable encoding.