Re: Non-ASCII characters in Subject lines

[Sven Joachim]

On 2009-04-25 12:16 +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> From: Sven Joachim <address@hidden>
>> Cc: address@hidden
>> Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2009 10:01:16 +0200
>> 
>> On 2009-04-25 09:29 +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> 
>> > Is it allowed by the RFCs to have non-ASCII characters in the Subject
>> > line of an email message?
>> 
>> If it is properly encoded as described in RFC 2047, yes.
>
> No, I'm talking about raw encoded non-ASCII characters, such as the
> ones in this Subject line:
>
>   Subject: Forma\347\343o em Hipnose Cl\355nica - LISBOA - \332LTIMAS VAGAS
>
>> > Rmail currently doesn't decode this part, but maybe it should.
>> 
>> Gnus does that, see lisp/gnus/rfc2047.el for implementation details.
>
> Thanks for the pointer.  But what does Gnus do with Subject lines such
> as the one above?

It decodes them as well.

Sven