Re: subject decoding

[Frederic Gobry]

> Look at RFC2047, section 8. See the example for Subject:? It has
> TWO encoded words in it! So a structured field could look like:
> 
> Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Joe?= is =?utf-8?funny=? in prose

You're right, I overlooked the fact that several encodings can occur
in the same string. Therefore, ok for the rest of your comment :-)

> 1) the address_get_name() functions just strips the Q and B encoding, in
> which case it must also return the charset of the result (you can't do
> anything with it unless you know whether it's utf-8, latin1, or koi8),
> and even that would assume the input was in only one charset 
> 
> or
> 
> 2) you tell the address_get_name() function what charset you want, and
> it will strip the Q and B encoding, and then convert the character
> encoding to whatever you wanted.
> 
> I suggest approach (2).
> 
> Do you think I'm missing something?

I like approach 2 too :-)

Frédéric

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