Re: UTF-8 problem with rmail From line

[Kevin Rodgers]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 16:16:01 +0200
> > From: =?UTF-8?B?xLBzbWFpbCBEw7ZubWV6?= <address@hidden>
> >
> > cartman:x:1000:1000:İsmail Dönmez,,,:/home/cartman:/bin/zsh
> >
> > Now in emacs when I do C-x m , I see the following:
> >
> > From: "=?utf-8?Q?=C4=B0smail_D=C3=B6nmez?=" <address@hidden>
> > To:
> > Subject:
> > --text follows this line--
> >
> >
> > So the name is pretty much garbage now. Is this somehow expected or is it a bug?
>
> That's not garbage, that's how non-ASCII characters in email addresses
> need to be encoded.
>
> The problem is that mail transport does not allow (or at least didn't
> allow in the past) non-ASCII characters in any of the mail headers,
> because various mail servers need to look at the headers.  So Emacs
> encodes the non-ASCII characters in quoted-printable encoding.

How about a tooltip or local help over the header content, to display
the decoded value?

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Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA