Re: UTF-8

[Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS]

> > (2) I received e-mail which had UTF-8 in the headers, like this:
> > 
> >     From: "Kalle XXXä" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > 
> > That's a 2-byte encoding of &auml;. Is there an RFC that permits or
> > forbids this? Should this really have been something like:
> 
> rfc822 only allows 7bit in the headers.

Yes, of course. I was being stupid.

In fact it's worse than that. I was getting my e-mail with fetchmail
and without "no mimedecode", so the headers were being misconverted by
fetchmail ...

It seems that the sender's original header was:

    From: "=?utf-8?Q?Kalle_XXX=C3=A4?=" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

I think this is wrong according to RFC-2047, because of the quotes,
but mutt understands it anyway. For the reply, mutt converts it to:

    To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Kalle_XXX=E4?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

So, how hard is it to display and edit e-mail in UTF-8 with mutt?

Edmund