OT: characters sets in mail headers (was: Accents)

[Linda Walsh]

Thomas De Contes wrote:
> Le 25 août 2011 à 14:36, Greg Wooledge a écrit :
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> > On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 06:51:32PM -0700, Linda Walsh wrote:
> >     
> > > BTW, Thomas -- what is the Character that comes after 'De' in your
> > > name?  I read it as hex '0xc282c2'  which doesn't seem to be valid unicode.
> > >       
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> (it is NBSP (for address book))
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> > RFC 2822 (section 2.2) says that Header Fields in an email must be
> > composed of US-ASCII characters
> >     
> i don't know very well how to read RFCs, but
> in "=?iso-8859-1?Q?Thomas_De=A0Contes?="
> Aren't there all the needed informations to translate that in readable 
> characters ?
>   
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Ah...

Greg... I think the 'name' isn't part of the header...
I just tried using
𝓛𝓲𝓷𝓭𝓪 𝓦𝓪𝓵𝓼𝓱 < 𝓑𝓪𝓼𝓱@tlinx.org>, and my emailer yelled at me 
saying
I had 8 bit chars in the output addresss (though I think I can set/change
that...hmm...*evil thoughts*...)...

Anyway, changed it to '𝓛𝓲𝓷𝓭𝓪 𝓦𝓪𝓵𝓼𝓱 < bash@tlinx.org>' and it 
worked
fine... and came through fine  (i.e. went through my ISP, came back
through fetchmail, retrieved by Tbird from Dovecot/IMAP...

So UTF8 appears to work in all my SW in the name portion...
but not in account names (well haven't fully verified that yet)...

I'm wondering if it would cough on a UTF-8 domain name.....




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