Re: something decodes my headers...

[Jan Rychter <jan@rychter.com>]

>>>>> "Simon" == Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:
 Simon> Dave Love <d.love@dl.ac.uk> writes:
 >> Jan Rychter <jan@rychter.com> writes:
 >>
 > People who get ISO-8859-1 E-mail don't see this, because mail-extr.el
 > is "extended" to handle ISO-8859-1 in a particularly ugly way.
 >>
 >> That must be XEmacs-specific.  mail-extr in Emacs (at least Emacs
 >> 21) works with multilingual text.

 Simon> What does "works" mean?  I'm not aware of any standards that
 Simon> define how non-ASCII email address phrases should work (RFC
 Simon> (2)822 even forbid them) except MIME, so any implementation
 Simon> claiming to support it if it doesn't use MIME is ad-hoc at best.

In general, I'd agree with Simon, but I think what Dave meant was that
mail-extract-address-components is supposed to do its hairy thing
independent of whether it gets an rfc2047-encoded string or not. Perhaps
that is indeed the case.

In any case, I've reported the problem to XEmacs developers as it indeed
seems that mail-extr.el is different in GNU Emacs (it uses [:alnum:] in
regexes specifying the fullname part). The ISO-8859-1-specific hack
seems to be XEmacs-only.

I just hope someone will fix this, I hope we won't end up just pointing
fingers here and there.

--J.