Re: 5.8.2 bug: test тест téßt test

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

Vladimir Volovich <vvv@vvv.vsu.ru> writes:

> when sending a message with this subject, gnus encodes non-ascii text
> as encoded-word, and as a result, the space between a cyrillic word
> (koi8-r) and a latin-1 word is lost. This rule was already discussed
> in this list (in a different thread):
> 
> RFC 2047 says:
> 
> RFC-2047> When displaying a particular header field that contains
> RFC-2047> multiple 'encoded-word's, any 'linear-white-space' that
> RFC-2047> separates a pair of adjacent 'encoded-word's is ignored.
> RFC-2047> (This is to allow the use of multiple 'encoded-word's to
> RFC-2047> represent long strings of unencoded text, without having to
> RFC-2047> separate 'encoded-word's where spaces occur in the unencoded
> RFC-2047> text.)
> 
> The subject contained a cyrillic word and a latin-1 word separated by
> a real space. Gnus encoded both words as encoded-word, but not encoded
> a space between them. As a result, this space is ignored when
> displaying the subject.

Oh dear.

So should the rfc2047 algorithm be:

1) find all words (or phrases) to encode
2) encode all the words or phrases
3) if there are now two encoded words after each other, we encode a
   space in between them?

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