Re: rfc2047 decoding

[asjo@koldfront.dk (Adam Sjøgren)]

Bjørn writes:

>> Perl's Encode::MIME::Header decodes it to the second line. But it also
>> encoded the text in the first place, so I guess it {s,w}ould roundtrip.

> The "=?UTF-8?Q?l=20DSB?='" part of the header is invalid:
>
>     Ordinary ASCII text and 'encoded-word's may appear together in the
>     same header field.  However, an 'encoded-word' that appears in a
>     header field defined as '*text' MUST be separated from any adjacent
>     'encoded-word' or 'text' by 'linear-white-space'.

Great, I shall report that as a bug against Encode::MIME::Header.

I knew this was where to find experts in rfc 2047 :-)

E:M:H also encodes other things weirdly, like adding "\n " at the
beginning of a line of ascii(!)


  Thanks!

   Adam

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