Re: [Pan-users] problems with special letters

[Jeffrey Stedfast]

> hi people!
> 
> does anybody know why the following text does not get converted 
> correctly in Pan (0.13.0)
> 
> =?iso-8859-2?Q?Bug=20when=20compiled=20\"under\"=20Athlon?=
> 

Yea, this is an invalid encoded-word. The \'s and "'s are what make it
invalid. Assuming that the original string was:

Bug when compiled "under" Athlon

The mailer that encoded that string is broken in several ways:

First, the original string did not need to be encoded at all - it does
not contain any illegal characters (no 8bit text nor any control
characters or anything else that would require encoding).

Secondly, well, it just didn't encode it correctly at all :-)

the proper encoding would have been:

=?iso-8859-1?Q?Bug_when_compiled_=22under=22_Athlon?=

And yes, I really do mean iso-8859-1 (iso-8859-1 is the
least-common-denominator of charset that can be used to encode that set
of text, which is what the rfcs recommend a client do - however, it
still would have been correct to have used iso-8859-2 as well - heck, it
could have even said the charset was UTF-8 if it wanted to).

Jeff

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Jeffrey Stedfast <address@hidden>