Re: UTF-8 problem with rmail From line

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 16:16:01 +0200
> From: =?UTF-8?B?xLBzbWFpbCBEw7ZubWV6?= <address@hidden>
> 
> cartman:x:1000:1000:İsmail Dönmez,,,:/home/cartman:/bin/zsh
> 
> Now in emacs when I do C-x m , I see the following:
> 
> From: "=?utf-8?Q?=C4=B0smail_D=C3=B6nmez?=" <address@hidden>
> To:
> Subject:
> --text follows this line--
> 
> 
> So the name is pretty much garbage now. Is this somehow expected or is it a 
> bug?

That's not garbage, that's how non-ASCII characters in email addresses
need to be encoded.

The problem is that mail transport does not allow (or at least didn't
allow in the past) non-ASCII characters in any of the mail headers,
because various mail servers need to look at the headers.  So Emacs
encodes the non-ASCII characters in quoted-printable encoding.