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Re: [openpgp] User ID conventions (it's not really a RFC2822 name-addr)

2019-11-06 05:49:23
On Tue, 05 Nov 2019 23:35:11 +0100,
Neal H. Walfield wrote:
I'm a bit concerned about allowing the backslash character: with this
grammar, it is just a normal character, but for an RFC 2822 parser,
it's an escape character.  Since User IDs may be used in contexts
where RFC 2822 things are expected, we should be careful.  But, I fear
that if we reject it, we'll end up gratuitiously rejecting some
emojis.  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

The double quote character has a similar problem.

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