Re: HOWTO: RFC 2047 encoding of From: header?

[Pawel Salek <pawsa theochem kth se>]

On 07/04/2004 07:08:05 PM, Albrecht Dreß wrote:
> Hi Jeff,
>
> I noticed that using the gmime cvs, the From: header (and maybe
> others, too?) is not properly RFC 2047 encoded by default, i.e. the  
> sequence
> <snip>
> msg = g_mime_message_new(TRUE);
> g_mime_message_set_sender(msg, "Albrecht Dreß
> <albrecht dress arcor de>");
> cont = g_mime_object_to_string(GMIME_OBJECT(msg));
> </snip>
> leaves "From: Albrecht Dre\xdf <albrecht dress arcor de>" in the
> returned string, which obviously violates RFC 2047. Is this the  
> expected behaviour?

I see this incorrect behaviour with 2.1.3, too.


> How do I trigger RFC 2047 conversion with gmime, if possible
> automatically (note for Balsa: HEAD using gmime cvs sends bad From:  
> headers!)?

I guess we can explicitely use g_mime_utils_header_encode_phrase()  
before calling g_mime_message_set_sender() but this would be just  
guessing: GMIME does not mention that the passed string must be 7-bit.  
Jeff, what do you think?

Pawel