Re: Non-ASCII characters in Subject lines

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Sven Joachim <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2009 10:01:16 +0200
> 
> On 2009-04-25 09:29 +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> > Is it allowed by the RFCs to have non-ASCII characters in the Subject
> > line of an email message?
> 
> If it is properly encoded as described in RFC 2047, yes.

No, I'm talking about raw encoded non-ASCII characters, such as the
ones in this Subject line:

  Subject: Forma\347\343o em Hipnose Cl\355nica - LISBOA - \332LTIMAS VAGAS

> > Rmail currently doesn't decode this part, but maybe it should.
> 
> Gnus does that, see lisp/gnus/rfc2047.el for implementation details.

Thanks for the pointer.  But what does Gnus do with Subject lines such
as the one above?