[sylpheed:32176] Re: who's the problem with the name encoding

[Hiroyuki Yamamoto]

Hello,

On Mon, 7 Apr 2008 02:28:51 +0300
Cristian Secară <orice at secarica.ro> wrote:

> When sending a message, the sender displayed name (i.e. my name) is
> Cristian Secară. This is utf-8 encoded, so Sylpheed generate the
> header like this
> From: Cristian =?UTF-8?B?U2VjYXLEgw==?= <etc.>
> 
> Problem: someone who use Alpine email client observed that my name
> appears with no space inbetween, that is
> CristianSecară <etc.>
> If, before sending, I surround my name in quotation marks (manually),
> the name then shows correctly on that email client.
> The same apply if the encoding is ISO-8859-2.
> 
> During my tests I observed that other email systems uses different
> encoding scheme.
> Sent with Google mail, my name is encoded
> To: =?UTF-8?Q?Cristian_Secar=C4=83?= <etc.>
> Sent with Outlook, my name is encoded
> To: =?utf-8?B?Q3Jpc3RpYW4gU2VjYXLEgw==?= <etc.>
> 
> In both of the above cases my name is correctly displayed on that
> client, no matter if quotation marks are included or not.
> My question is -- who's wrong ? Should Sylpheed use another encoding
> scheme, or is a bug in that Alpine email client ?

In RFC 2047, there are some examples like that:

> CC: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Andr=E9?= Pirard <PIRARD at vm1.ulg.ac.be>

> (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?a?= b)                      (a b)

The more unambiguous way is to encode spaces too, but the expression
like 'From: Cristian =?UTF-8?B?U2VjYXLEgw==?= <etc.>' should be allowed.

-- 
Hiroyuki Yamamoto <hiro-y at kcn.ne.jp>