From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Non-ASCII characters in Subject lines Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2009 12:28:42 -0400 Message-ID: References: <83r5zhfax9.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1240676954 8453 80.91.229.12 (25 Apr 2009 16:29:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2009 16:29:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Apr 25 18:30:33 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 1Lxklm-0003Mz-Mf for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 25 Apr 2009 18:30:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37811 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LxkkN-0001jT-6E for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 25 Apr 2009 12:28:59 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LxkkH-0001j4-26 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Apr 2009 12:28:53 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LxkkB-0001hX-6O for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Apr 2009 12:28:51 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=58892 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LxkkB-0001hU-26 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Apr 2009 12:28:47 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.pppoe.ca ([206.248.154.182]:36510 helo=ironport2-out.teksavvy.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Lxkk7-0008Oc-JT; Sat, 25 Apr 2009 12:28:43 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Ag4FAGfX8klFxLKx/2dsb2JhbACBT8wpg3QFhTE X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.40,246,1238990400"; d="scan'208";a="37597531" Original-Received: from 69-196-178-177.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([69.196.178.177]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP; 25 Apr 2009 12:28:41 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 17BAC7EFE; Sat, 25 Apr 2009 12:28:42 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <83r5zhfax9.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sat, 25 Apr 2009 10:29:54 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.92 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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:110472 Archived-At: > 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 ? No, it's not allowed in any part of the header. Actually, I'm not sure it's "disallowed", but rather its meaning falls out of the scope of the RFC. > 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. Stefan