From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/63834 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Katsumi Yamaoka Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: ietf-drums-parse-address, gnus-extract-address-components, mail-extract-address-components Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 08:58:50 +0900 Organization: Emacsen advocacy group Message-ID: References: <87mz851t59.fsf@mobile.repose.cx> <8764ej273p.fsf@catnip.gol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-2022-jp X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1161043280 30282 80.91.229.2 (17 Oct 2006 00:01:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 00:01:20 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+m12361@lists.math.uh.edu Tue Oct 17 02:01:19 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GZcOU-0006mZ-K8 for ding-account@gmane.org; Tue, 17 Oct 2006 02:01:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1GZcOP-0001lT-00; Mon, 16 Oct 2006 19:01:13 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1GZcMN-0001lO-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 16 Oct 2006 18:59:07 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GZcML-0003Zd-VZ for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 16 Oct 2006 18:59:07 -0500 Original-Received: from washington.hostforweb.net ([66.225.201.13]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1GZcMG-0002OP-00 for ; Tue, 17 Oct 2006 01:59:00 +0200 Original-Received: from [205.234.185.198] (port=35677 helo=mail.jpl.org) by washington.hostforweb.net with esmtpa (Exim 4.52) id 1GZcML-0002B4-Bu for ding@gnus.org; Mon, 16 Oct 2006 18:59:05 -0500 Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-Hashcash: 1:20:061016:ding@gnus.org::3/55EyK5oxem3rfK:00000czR X-Face: #kKnN,xUnmKia.'[pp`;Omh}odZK)?7wQSl"4o04=EixTF+V[""w~iNbM9ZL+.b*_CxUmFk B#Fu[*?MZZH@IkN:!"\w%I_zt>[$nm7nQosZ<3eu;B:$Q_:p!',P.c0-_Cy[dz4oIpw0ESA^D*1Lw= L&i*6&( User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/23.0.0 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ZU0pHR8N3zTIWTaI6v4mqKMVevo= X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - washington.hostforweb.net X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - gnus.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [0 0] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - jpl.org X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) Precedence: bulk Original-Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:63834 Archived-At: >>>>> In <8764ej273p.fsf@catnip.gol.com> >>>>> Miles Bader wrote: > Katsumi Yamaoka writes: >> (let ((mail-extr-disable-voodoo nil)) ;; Enable voodoo. >> (mail-extract-address-components "王ヶ頭ホテル ")) >> => ("王. ヶ. 頭. ホテル" "ougatou@example.com") > Why would one _want_ to enable the "voodoo" for Japanese names? It was always enabled until the `mail-extr-disable-voodoo' variable was introduced two years ago, so it is easy to imagine that not a few people tripped on it. > [Indeed, why does this "voodoo" exist in the first place??? Even for > western names, it seems kind of stupid... but clearly somebody went to a > lot of trouble to implement it.] I believe such a basic function should be simple. It was once discussed in emacs-devel[1] (though at least Richard seemed not to be interested so much). [1] http://news.gmane.org/group/gmane.emacs.devel/thread=25937