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Re: quoted strings within quoted strings

2002-03-01 05:14:11

In <2147483647(_dot_)1014899942(_at_)[10(_dot_)0(_dot_)1(_dot_)2]> Cyrus Daboo 
<daboo(_at_)cyrusoft(_dot_)com> writes:

sender = "\"John D. \\\"Cool\\\" Bloggs" <jdbloggs(_at_)example(_dot_)com>"

That's Cool!

Does anyone know of any software out there that would actually unscramble
that? Or maybe it is the case that no (non-human) application actually has
the need to do so. I suppose the case would arise if the protocol required
you to send mail to the entity identified by the 'sender' parameter.

Anyway, I have tried something of the sort in the From header of this
message which, as I just wrote it, says:
        From: "Charles H. \"Usefor\" Lindsey" 
<chl(_at_)clw(_dot_)cs(_dot_)man(_dot_)ac(_dot_)uk>
Let us see if anything different is seen by anyone anywhere.

Actually, I now recall contructing such an example to test a
canonicalization rule in draft-lindsey-usefor-signed-01.txt.

tO:     "John (the Boss) Smith"  <bar(_at_)foo(_dot_)example> ,
   "Bill \"fingers\"
 Sykes" <"#*\"~"@twist.example> (Observe unescaped \( and escaped "
 within quoted strings, and (properly matched) parentheses within
 comments)

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