Re: email address handling

Linus Torvalds [off-list ref] writes:

On Sat, 2 Aug 2008, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

quoted

Ah, there lies the rub (you forgot that the original complaint was about 
a comma, and pretty=email does not handle those):

Indeed.

I wonder where that is_rfc2047_special() function came from.  The list of 
"special" characters is totally bogus.

The real RFC has comma, but it has a lot of other characters too:

  especials = "(" / ")" / "<" / ">" / "@" / "," / ";" / ":" /
              "<" / "> / "/" / "[" / "]" / "?" / "." / "="

because basically the rfc2047 encoding has to be a superset of the 822 
(and later 2822) encodings.

Hmm, you're right.  This has to be trickier than I originally thought it
would be ... ;-)