bug in encoded-word encoding

bug in encoded-word encoding

[vvv]

Hi,

i wrote:

> sorry for wrong quote from RFC. i wonder, is this still a buggy
> behavior?

looks like yes:

 RFC2047> Ordinary ASCII text and 'encoded-word's may appear together in the
 RFC2047> same header field.  However, an 'encoded-word' that appears in a
 RFC2047> header field defined as '*text' MUST be separated from any adjacent
 RFC2047> 'encoded-word' or 'text' by 'linear-white-space'.

Best,
v.

Re: bug in encoded-word encoding

[ShengHuo ZHU]

vvv@vsu.ru writes:

> Hi,
> 
> i wrote:
> 
> > sorry for wrong quote from RFC. i wonder, is this still a buggy
> > behavior?
> 
> looks like yes:
> 
>  RFC2047> Ordinary ASCII text and 'encoded-word's may appear together in the
>  RFC2047> same header field.  However, an 'encoded-word' that appears in a
>  RFC2047> header field defined as '*text' MUST be separated from any adjacent
>  RFC2047> 'encoded-word' or 'text' by 'linear-white-space'.

You use a wrong quote. It should be the following one.

,----[ RFC2047 ]
| (3) As a replacement for a 'word' entity within a 'phrase', for example,
|     one that precedes an address in a From, To, or Cc header.  The ABNF
|     definition for 'phrase' from RFC 822 thus becomes:
| 
|     phrase = 1*( encoded-word / word )
| 
|     In this case the set of characters that may be used in a "Q"-encoded
|     'encoded-word' is restricted to: <upper and lower case ASCII
|     letters, decimal digits, "!", "*", "+", "-", "/", "=", and "_"
|     (underscore, ASCII 95.)>.  An 'encoded-word' that appears within a
|     'phrase' MUST be separated from any adjacent 'word', 'text' or
|     'special' by 'linear-white-space'.
`----

Since it is a phrase, special characters ("." and others) must be in
quoted string to use within a word (see RFC 822).

But there may be another bug, encoded words in a quoted string. I am
not sure how to encode a quoted string with non-ASCII characters.
Anyone knows?

ShengHuo

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Re: bug in encoded-word encoding

[vvv]

"ZSH" == ShengHuo ZHU writes:

 ZSH> But there may be another bug, encoded words in a quoted
 ZSH> string. I am not sure how to encode a quoted string with
 ZSH> non-ASCII characters.  Anyone knows?

i think that quotes should be encoded as part of the encoded-word.

bug in encoded-word encoding

[vvv]

Hi,

i wrote:

> To: =?koi8-r?b?5M3J1NLJyiDp?=. =?koi8-r?b?59XTxdc=?= <some@where>
> 
> which is a bug according to RFC2047:
> 
> [skipped]

sorry for wrong quote from RFC. i wonder, is this still a buggy
behavior?

Best,
v.

bug in encoded-word encoding

[vvv]

Hi,

i composed a mail in gnus (current cvs version), with the following
To: header:

To: Дмитрий И. Гусев <some@where>

gnus encoded it like this:

To: =?koi8-r?b?5M3J1NLJyiDp?=. =?koi8-r?b?59XTxdc=?= <some@where>

which is a bug according to RFC2047:

 RFC2047> IMPORTANT: 'encoded-word's are designed to be recognized as 'atom's
 RFC2047> by an RFC 822 parser.  As a consequence, unencoded white space
 RFC2047> characters (such as SPACE and HTAB) are FORBIDDEN within an
 RFC2047> 'encoded-word'.  For example, the character sequence
 RFC2047>     =?iso-8859-1?q?this is some text?=
 RFC2047> would be parsed as four 'atom's, rather than as a single 'atom' (by
 RFC2047> an RFC 822 parser) or 'encoded-word' (by a parser which understands
 RFC2047> 'encoded-words').  The correct way to encode the string "this is some
 RFC2047> text" is to encode the SPACE characters as well, e.g.
 RFC2047>     =?iso-8859-1?q?this=20is=20some=20text?=
 RFC2047> The characters which may appear in 'encoded-text' are further
 RFC2047> restricted by the rules in section 5.

gnus should have included the dot into the encoded-word, instead of
putting int immediately after it.

i think that such a bug was once fixed, but somehow it is again
present. :-(( i wonder, why....

(it is not a good sign that fixed bugs are appearing again and again)

Best,
v.