Re: Non-ASCII-characters in Header

[thomas . erskine-dated-a20ace8c96e3c6fa]

On Tue, 13 Apr 1999, Juergen Schubert wrote:

[snip]
> This is a sample error message. I think your XEmacs is a good one and
> encodes the Subject MIME compliant.
[snip]
> Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 11:51:29 +0200
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> From: Juergen Schubert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: fär

The subject looks to me like 'f', a-with-umlaut, 'r'.  Dumped from the raw
mailbox, it looks like a '=E4' for the a-with-umlaut, but it's not marked
with the RFC-whatever-it-is prefix saying that it's encoded.  I haven't
read the relevant RFC recently enough to remember if this is permitted.

> Mime-Version: 1.0
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
> 
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> 
> In this case the Subject contains an illegal character.
> 
> Regards
> Juergen
> 
> 
> 

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