Re: Getting RFC 2047 encoding right

Charles Lindsey writes:
> In <20031208104132(_dot_)06afa352(_dot_)moore(_at_)cs(_dot_)utk(_dot_)edu> Keith Moore 
> <moore(_at_)cs(_dot_)utk(_dot_)edu> writes:
> > The correct way to reply to a message that has an RFC 2047-encoded 
> > subject is to use the same RFC 2047-encoded subject that appeared in 
> > the message being replied-to. That's very easy to do - just prepend 
> > "Re: " to that subject line, and rewrap the header (leaving 
> > encoded-words intact) if necessary to accomodate RFC 2047 
> > line-length restrictions.
> Sure. That's the "obvious" way to do it, but since when have 
> implementors of User Agents invariably done the "obvious" thing?
The "obvious" way for most MUAs is to fire up an editor and use the 
subject line it gets back from the editor. And that's what most of them 
do.
--Arnt