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Re: National characters in headers



> Hi!
> After installing 2.99.18 I have one more remark regarding encoding
> of national characters in mail headers:
>     If there is any 8-bit character in the user full name (comment)
>     there is a chance that there are more of them so it would be
>     better to write:
> 	=?UNKNOWN-8BIT?Q?=A3=B1=BFy=F1ski?= 
>     than:
> 	=?UNKNOWN-8BIT?Q?=A3?= =?UNKNOWN-8BIT?Q?=B1?= =?UNKNOWN-8BIT?Q?=BF?= y =?UNKNOWN-8BIT?Q?=F1?= ski
>     As far as I understand it is acceptable since rfc1342.txt suggests:
> 	From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Patrik_F=E4ltstr=F6m?= <paf@nada.kth.se>

	Right, and actually the new (not yet released) smtpserver does
	thinks more in the latter style.

	The "MIME-2" - issue is rather complex, and non-trivial...

> Best regards,
> 	Jerzy
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Jerzy Sobczyk              ____________ ___     Institute of Control and
> J.Sobczyk@ia.pw.edu.pl    /  /     |  |/  _\    Computation Engineering, 

	/Matti Aarnio <mea@nic.funet.fi>