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Re: IDN (was Did anyone tell Microsoft yet?)

2002-05-03 14:45:06

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On Friday 03 May 2002 15:22, Charles Lindsey wrote:
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Although actually, simply encoding it with RFC 2047 might be a sensible
move. It is not strictly allowed, but we have just seen that lots of
mailers do it,

Correction: Most mailers simply encode the whole addr-spec (some with, some 
sans the enclosing <>'s), only your mailer (dtmail?) did a good job at not 
encoding the @<>'s.

However, the changes to existing mailers would probably be minimal.
Following is the complete patch[1] to make KMail skip the @, so that it's 
output is the same as dtmails:
- -const QString dontQuote = "\"()<>,";
+const QString dontQuote = "\"()<>,@";

and it would at least ensure the mail for moderators
arrived at a site which had an interest in disentangling it.

Marc

[1] though KMail has other problems than that w.r.t. addresses: It doesn't 
    (yet) have a rfc822 tokenizer :-(

- -- 
Marc Mutz <mutz(_at_)kde(_dot_)org>
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