Re: [Evolution] title encoding

[Dan Winship <danw novell com>]

On Wed, 2004-06-16 at 11:24 -0400, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-06-16 at 10:35 -0400, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > On Wed, 2004-06-16 at 21:21 +0800, Not Zed wrote:
> > > Still, i'm extremely loathe to, since it is a clear breakage of a
> > > pretty simple set of rules from a not-particularly complex rfc.
> > > Seriously, MS should know better, for such a fundamental issue.  We've
> > > had issues with rfc compliance in that code and fixed it, i'm sure
> > > they can too.
> >
> > Whatever happened to "be strict in what you send and flexible in what
> > you accept"? (I'm paraphrasing, but that was once the golden rule of the
> > Internet).
>
> whatever happened to reading the spec?
>
> seriously tho, rfc2047 is pretty clear about how to deal with broken
> encoded-words. simply don't decode them... and this is what Evolution
> follows.

Which would be a wonderful argument if Evolution was an RFC conformance
test suite. But it's not. It's an email client, and as such, it should
be focusing on helping people read their mail.

-- Dan