Re: RFC 2047 encoded headers are causing unbalanced '"'

[Reiner Steib]

On Thu, Mar 01 2007, Enrico Scholz wrote:

> | "Für mich" <foo>
>
> (first name is an 'F' plus a german &uuml; umlaut). Gnus encodes this as
>
> | =?iso-8859-1?Q?=22F=FCr?= mich" <foo>
>
> which is rejected by sendmail with
>
> | DSN: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=22F=FCr?= mich" <foo>... Unbalanced '"'

> I am using Gnus v5.10.7 with "XEmacs 21.5 (beta27) "fiddleheads"

This problem (I'm unsure if it's a bug) has been fixed in the stable
branch and in the trunk.  I'm not sure if the change was after the
release of 5.10.8 or not.

$ emacs22 -Q -f ielm

ELISP> (require 'rfc2047)
rfc2047
ELISP> (rfc2047-encode-string "To: \"Für mich\" <foo@bar>")
"To: =?utf-8?Q?F=C3=BCr_mich?= <foo@bar>"
ELISP> (setq mm-coding-system-priorities '(iso-8859-1))
(iso-8859-1)

ELISP> (rfc2047-encode-string "To: \"Für mich\" <foo@bar>")
"To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?F=FCr_mich?= <foo@bar>"
ELISP> 

Bye, Reiner.
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