Re: patch: \201 when cache (was: bug: \201 in summary buffer)

[Per Abrahamsen <abraham@dina.kvl.dk>]

François Pinard <pinard@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> Stainless Steel Rat <ratinox@peorth.gweep.net> writes:
> 
> > * Shenghuo ZHU <zsh@cs.rochester.edu>  on Sun, 02 May 1999
> > | When I enter an article with non-ASCII in subject to cache, \201
> > | appears in summary buffer when I reenter the group.
> 
> > Just FYI, raw 8-bit characters are not allowed in mail or news article
> > headers.  They *must* be encoded into a 7-bit format.
> 
> Allowed or not, such characters often occur in practice. 

More than that, it is recommended practice for many "cooperating
subnets", including the one the main Gnus author is located in.
Mostly because just-pass-8bit gave less trouble than QP encoded
headers.

Gnus should -- when possible -- allow for messages that conform to
local conventions, even when they override international standards.