[imp] Attachements from Thunderbird to Imp with french characters

Otto Stolz Otto.Stolz at uni-konstanz.de
Thu Aug 3 07:46:05 PDT 2006


Hello Jacques Beaudoin,

you have written:
> User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923)
...
> Content-type: image/jpeg; name="=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=E9t=E9=2Ejpg?="

and also:
> User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (Windows/20060719)
...
> Content-type: image/jpeg; name*=ISO-8859-1''%E9t%E9.jpg

See the difference?

Thunderbird 1.0.7 complies with RFC 2047
<http://rfc-ref.org/RFC-TEXTS/2047/chapter2.html>.
Thunderbird 1.5.0.5  complies with RFC 2231
<http://rfc-ref.org/RFC-TEXTS/2231/chapter4.html>.

Apparently, you are using an obsolete Imp version
that does not comply with RFC 2231.

I do not know why the authors of RFC 2231 have
invented a completely new scheme rather than amending
RFC 2047's encoded-word syntax with a language at-
tribute -- but so it is, and your e-mail programs
have to comply with it.


Best wishes,
   Otto Stolz


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