Bug: problem decoding some non-ascii characters in subjects

Albin Stjerna albin.stjerna at gmail.com
Sun Feb 10 00:30:52 PST 2013


Jani Nikula wrote:

> Is that entirely on one line in the original message file? If not, where
> exactly is it split?

It's in one line.

> Either way, at a glance, it seems like the encoding is malformed. I
> think the encoded-word ("=?" charset "?" encoding "?" encoded-text "?=")
> should be separated by space to make it an atom. [RFC 2047, RFC 2822].

> If you manually move the leading 'f' after the "?Q?" bit, it works as
> expected. It looks like the bug is in the sender's user agent.

Hm. So I should report this to Thunderbird? I tried searching through
their bug reports but didn't find anything.

I didn't think it was a bug, since Gmail rendered it just fine.


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