Re: Make rfc2231-decode-encoded-string more robust

[Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org>]

>>>>> Joao Cachopo wrote:

> Once in a while I receive an email that Gnus fails to show, giving an
> error in rfc2231-decode-encoded-string.  As far as I could see, the
> problem is with the email message, that has an incorrectly formed
> RFC2231 string somewhere within it.  More specifically, the string ends
> with '%'.  Probably, this is due to some broken MUA out there.

> Still, I think that Gnus should handle this case more gracefully, rather
> than not showing the email at all.

> Therefore, I propose the following change to the
> rfc2231-decode-encoded-string to make it more robust.

I think that function should never stop Gnus whatever happens;
at least things other than the attachment in question should be
displayed.  Thank you for the patch, but I've modified it in
another way in the Gnus trunk.  It ignores things that are not
2-digit hexadecimal characters that follow `%'s.

Regards,