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: rfc2047-decode-region Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2011 16:32:56 +0200 Message-ID: <83mxa8stev.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83wr9drqyx.fsf@gnu.org> <87obuoewk3.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1325341988 24824 80.91.229.12 (31 Dec 2011 14:33:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2011 14:33:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 31 15:33:04 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Rgzza-0000BX-Sr for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 31 Dec 2011 15:33:03 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44088 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RgzzZ-0001tO-D7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 31 Dec 2011 09:33:01 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:44441) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RgzzW-0001t7-5B for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 31 Dec 2011 09:32:59 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RgzzV-0004qP-3K for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 31 Dec 2011 09:32:58 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:49028) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RgzzU-0004qL-Rq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 31 Dec 2011 09:32:57 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0LX200K00OECRZ00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 31 Dec 2011 16:32:55 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.126.18.76]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0LX200KM8OET9SA0@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Sat, 31 Dec 2011 16:32:55 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <87obuoewk3.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-Received-From: 80.179.55.166 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:147097 Archived-At: > From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2011 21:48:44 +0900 > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > > This function accepts an optional ADDRESS-MIME argument, which is > > described in the doc string thusly: > > > > If ADDRESS-MIME is non-nil, strip backslashes which precede characters > > other than `"' and `\' in quoted strings. > > > > This gives absolutely no information about when to use this option and > > why. > > It's all in RFC 5322. Doesn't everybody know that by heart? ;-) I didn't find a place that would explain how to compute 5322 from 2047. > I would assume that this argument should be non-nil when decoding a > header field which is parsed into atoms, such as To or From. Possibly > this would apply to Message-ID and References as well (in messages > conforming to RFC 5322 and maybe 2822, but in 822 References and > In-Reply-To were just unstructured text). Thanks. I needed it to decode a region of the "rmail view buffer", where we display a single message, which includes all the displayed headers, including From, To, CC, Subject, etc. So from your explanations I understand that the ADDRESS-MIME argument can stay nil in that case, correct?