Re: mu-address-get-personal swallows UTF-8 encoded characters

Sergey Poznyakoff <[email protected]> Wed, 29 Aug 2018 01:18:23 +0300

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.gnu.mailutils.bugs
Organization	GNU.org.ua
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Hi Ricardo,

> is it expected that mu-address-get-personal swallows non-ASCII
> characters?

Yes. According to RFC 2822 such characters are not allowed in email
addresses. 

>     (mu-address-get-personal "[email protected] (Edward Nunèz)")

The personal part should have been encoded as per RFC 2047.

> Can this be avoided?

It is not clear how to encode such characters. The address above does
not carry any information about charset or encoding, so it is impossible
to handle 8-bit bytes in any reasonable way.

Regards,
Sergey