Re: rfc2047-decode-region

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2012 22:18:12 +0900
> 
> Eli Zaretskii writes:
> 
>  > > 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 didn't either; that's why you need to know the RFC by heart.  Seems
> a reasonable requirement for participation in a project which chooses
> its infrastructure based on email controllability! :-)

Well, I didn't really want to understand email.  I just wanted to fix
the display of some RFC 2047 encoded headers in Rmail, when the
message is not a MIME message.

>  > 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?
> 
> Yes, if I were you I'd set it to nil.

Thanks.  That's what I did in the first place, but I was unsure
whether it was TRT.