bug#56824: 29.0.50; mail-header-parse-address drops the 1st character from the name

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Sam Steingold <sds@gnu.org> writes:

> https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=10406
> https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=56422
>
> Lars told me to use `mail-header-parse-address' instead of
> `mail-extract-address-components'.

Well, not exactly.

> Well, I tried, with a positive effect (thanks Lars!),
> but here is the 1st time the former is deficient:
>
> (mail-header-parse-addresses "Štěpán Němec <stepnem@gmail.com>")
> ==> (("stepnem@gmail.com" . "těpán Němec"))
> (mail-extract-address-components "Štěpán Němec <stepnem@gmail.com>")
> ==> ("Štěpán Němec" "stepnem@gmail.com")

`mail-header-parse-addresses' is for parsing RFC822bis mail addresses.
"Štěpán Němec <stepnem@gmail.com>" is definitely not one of those.

You're probably looking for `mail-header-parse-address-lax':

(mail-header-parse-address-lax "Štěpán Němec <stepnem@gmail.com>")
-> ("stepnem@gmail.com" . "Štěpán Němec")

This should probably be documented better.