Re: [RFC 0/1] mailinfo: de-quote quoted-pair in header fields

Jeff King [off-list ref] writes:

It has been a while since I looked at rfc2822, but aren't the quoting
and syntax rules different for addresses versus other headers? We would
not want to dequote a Subject header, I think.

You're absolutely right.  RFC2822 does not quite _want_ to dequote
anything.  As you pointed out in a separate message, we are the one
who want to strip out "" quoting when mailinfo says

	Author: "Jeff King"

to its standard output (aka "info"), and turn it into

	GIT_AUTHOR_NAME='Jeff King'

and do so ONLY for the author name.

So I would think it is the responsibility of the one that reads the
"info" file that is produced by mailinfo to dequote the backslash
thing if the mailinfo gave us

	Author: "Jeff \"Peff\" King"