Re: gnus: incorrect conversion of Subject and From field from utf-8 to koi8-r

[Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org>]

>>>>> In <20421354@serv3.int.kfs.ru> Boris Samorodov wrote:

> This is to confirm that the latest revision 7.43 from HEAD
> for gnus/lisp/rfc2047.el from gnus cvs is fine with Subject and From
> fields.

> Thank you all who helped to investigate and unbreak the case!

You're welcome.  After discussing with well-informed people in
Japan, we came to recognize such an encoding (to divide encoded
text in the place of not character boundaries) violates RFC2047,
the section 5.  Here's an extract:

   Each 'encoded-word' MUST represent an integral number of characters.
   A multi-octet character may not be split across adjacent 'encoded-
   word's.

It doesn't mean to prohibit to try to decode them though, and
that Gnus does it would be nice.

> Should I confirm the success story anywhere else (maybe
> bug-gnu-emacs@)?

There's no necessity, maybe.

BTW, I realized that that fix was insufficient.  For instance,
it will display binary garbage if the charset specified in the
encoded-word is unknown.  So, I will CVS commit the new code
after a while.

Regards,