Incorrect RFC 1522/2047 encoding of quoted text

[schuetzm]

Example:
http://forum.dlang.org/post/movlj4$29cb$1@digitalmars.com

[CyberShadow]

I don't understand, what is the desired action / change in DFeed here? The Unicode characters are correctly encoded and decoded in DFeed as far as I can tell.

[CyberShadow]

If you mean that you see =?UTF-8?B?R3LDuHN0YWQi?= in Walter's message, that's because Walter's UA doesn't understand Unicode encoding of headers.

This encoding style is used ONLY in headers. If it is encountered in the message body, it is treated like any other sequence of characters.

[CyberShadow]

BTW I see no relation to the message's subject here. The subject of the message you linked is "Re: Rant after trying Rust a bit".

[schuetzm]

Sorry, I thought it was somehow caused by DFeed inserting the original sender into the reply without unescaping it. But you're right, Walter's using a different user agent which seems to have problems. Or, as someone else has since pointed out, Ola's newsreader wrongly uses quotes and encoded atoms at the same time. Sorry for the noise.

[d-random-contributor]

The original message was sent from DFeed, so headers come from DFeed? The original diagnosis was that the escaped name is incorrectly quoted, which causes Thunderbird to choke on it.
If you don't like the Rust topic, here it is copied:
I'd say it is a problem with the way the web interface encodes the
sender name, and especially the fact that it starts with a double quote.
In the message source, it looks like:

From: "Ola Fosheim =?UTF-8?B?R3LDuHN0YWQi?=
ola.fosheim.grostad+dlang@gmail.com

According to RFC 2047 [1]: "An 'encoded-word' MUST NOT appear within a 'quoted-string'." (top of page 7), so this should be written as:

From: Ola Fosheim =?UTF-8?B?R3LDuHN0YWQ=?=
ola.fosheim.grostad+dlang@gmail.com

    Jerome

[1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2047

[CyberShadow]

I am away from D stuff so haven't read the entire thread. Can you propose a pull request? The relevant code is in ae.net.ietf.message, encodeRfc1522 function.

[d-random-contributor]

As I understand, it's called like this:
encodeRfc1522(""Ola Fosheim Grøstad" (email)")
Should be called like this:
encodeRfc1522("Ola Fosheim Grøstad (email)")

[d-random-contributor]

- headers["From"] = format(`"%s" <%s>`, author, authorEmail);
+ headers["From"] = format(`%s <%s>`, author, authorEmail);

Something like this.

[CyberShadow]

Let's try it:

CyberShadow/ae@17bf03e

Hopefully this will not cause issues.