Re: mail-extract-address-components bug

[Katsumi Yamaoka]

>>>>> In <address@hidden> Kenichi Handa wrote:
> In article <address@hidden>, Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

>> If people have doubts that changing that syntax table is generally
>> correct, what about the previous patch that alters just the
>> particular function?

> At the moment, I don't have a time to study the code and his
> patch.  So, I can't doubt nor be sure on anything.

> But, in general, I think we can treat all non-ASCII
> characters as the same way in a mail address.  And, if
> mail-extr.el utilizes a syntax table to parse a mail
> address, I think setting all non-ASCII characters to the
> same syntax (in the current case, word) is the right thing.

> So, my suggestion it to do that and see if it works well if
> no one can investigate the code and RFC-822.

The way I posted, to make the syntax of all non-ASCII characters
`word', has a weakness.  It is not effective to charsets that
are created after loading mail-extr.el.

Regards,