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Re: [Nmh-workers] Weird behavior with non-ascii code in headers
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Ken Hornstein |
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Re: [Nmh-workers] Weird behavior with non-ascii code in headers |
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Wed, 26 Jun 2013 11:06:47 -0400 |
>This apparently gives multiple parts of nmh indigestion in components,
>as both of the following *silently* give up when they hit the 0xED, and
>fail to output the rest of the name or email address.
>
>%(decode(friendly{from})
>%(formataddr{to})
>
>Found this out the hard way - had my reply mail bounce because my reply
>to the mail had 'To: Mar' and my MTA freaked.
It might be interesting to understand the failure there.
>Yes, I know dealing with untagged non-ascii that contains characters not
>in the current locale (0xED isn't valid UTF-8), but surely we can do
>better than silently fail?
Sigh. It's a tough problem. Let me ask you: what do you want to happen?
--Ken