Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:

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> On Sat, 2 Aug 2008, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
>> 
>> 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 ... ;-)

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