Subjectlines get extra spaces in summary buffer

Subjectlines get extra spaces in summary buffer

[Felix Hagemann]

Hi!

I am trying to reply to this article in de.comp.text.tex:
<845c2351.0205150032.427c0b64@posting.google.com>, which has this
subject line:
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| Abstand zwischen Kapitelüberschrift und oberer Seitenkante
`----

I edit my followup and send it via C-c C-c.  When I later read my own
article, I see that the subject line has an extra space.  It looks
like this in the summary buffer (not in the article buffer!):
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| Re: Abstand zwischen Kapitelüberschrift und   oberer Seitenkante
`----

After some googling I think that the umlaut in the subject might be
the problem.  The OP uses:
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| Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
| Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
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which looks ok to me.

Can I do anything to fix this?  Is this a problem that anybody sees or
just me (I don't have any other newsreader here)?  I use:
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| User-Agent: Gnus/5.090005 (Oort Gnus v0.05) Emacs/21.1 (i386-msvc-nt4.0.1381)
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Bye,
Felix

Re: Subjectlines get extra spaces in summary buffer

[Kai Großjohann]

Felix Hagemann <fx-2-2002@coop-x.de> writes:

> I edit my followup and send it via C-c C-c.  When I later read my own
> article, I see that the subject line has an extra space.  It looks
> like this in the summary buffer (not in the article buffer!):
> ,----
> | Re: Abstand zwischen Kapitelüberschrift und   oberer Seitenkante
> `----

The extra space comes from erroneous header line folding and
unfolding.  RFC 2822 says that newline followed by whitespace in a
header should be interpreted like the whitespace.  But there is also
an RFC for the =?ISO-8859-1?Q?bla?= encoding that's used in the
headers, and there is also talks about whitespace, I think.

The result is a confusion on how to correctly interpret things.

I'm not sure if it's better in Oort Gnus from CVS.

kai
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