mutt, ISO-8859-1, and Terminal.app

[Jens Troeger]

Sorry, I wanted to protect the name encoded in that string, and messed
it up.  The string that's failing is this one:

  "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Mia_Det=ECn?="

So that would be a correct string then?

Cheers,
Jens


On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 07:49:23AM -1000, Baron Fujimoto wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Sep 2008, Jens Troeger wrote:
> 
> : 
> : Hello,
> : 
> : I'm running on OS-X 10.4.11 and Terminal version 1.5.1 (133-1).  Just
> : recently I installed MacPorts, including mutt-devel so that I can access
> : my gmail.com account.  It all works nicely; however, there's one big
> : annoyance: ISO-8859-1 text.  Some strings in the email header contain
> : such characters:
> : 
> :   From: "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bla Bl=ECn?=" < bla at bla >
> : 
> : and that's exactly what I see in my email list in mutt.  No actual name
> : with language specific characters, but instead this blob of undecoded
> : string.  
> 
> Is that a properly encoded header?  Section 2 of RFC 2047 says,
> 
>    IMPORTANT: 'encoded-word's are designed to be recognized as 'atom's
>    by an RFC 822 parser.  As a consequence, unencoded white space
>    characters (such as SPACE and HTAB) are FORBIDDEN within an
>    'encoded-word'.  For example, the character sequence
> 
>       =?iso-8859-1?q?this is some text?=
> 
>    would be parsed as four 'atom's, rather than as a single 'atom' (by
>    an RFC 822 parser) or 'encoded-word' (by a parser which understands
>    'encoded-words').  The correct way to encode the string "this is some
>    text" is to encode the SPACE characters as well, e.g.
> 
>       =?iso-8859-1?q?this=20is=20some=20text?=
> 
> and later in section 6.3:
> 
>    A mail reader need not attempt to display the text associated with an
>    'encoded-word' that is incorrectly formed.
> 
> <http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2047.txt>
> 
> : Does anybody have an idea what's going on here, and how I can fix that?
> : Thanks heaps!
> 
> I don't know if this is the source of the problem, but it caught my eye.
> 
> : Jens
> 
> -baron

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