Re: Open Issue: Splitting of local-part into labels and where?

[email protected] (Claus Färber)
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.imaa
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Adam M. Costello <[email protected]> schrieb/wrote:
> Claus Färber <[email protected]> wrote:
> [regarding the set of delimiters for subdividing local parts]
>> I'm not quite sure about the quoting characters ``"'' and ``\''. If
>> we apply toASCII/toUnicode after dequoting the local part, there's no
>> reason to include them.

> Sure there is.  Consider:

>     From: foo bar <"foo\"bar\\"@example.org>

> The dequoted local part is:

>     foo"bar\

So what? They're just ordinary characters like ``a'', ``b'' and ``c''
then. The quote characters are rarely used as separators.

The dequoted local part ``foö"bär\'' could be encoded as
``xn--fo"br\-eua5l'', which could be quoted/included in a From header as
``"xn--fo\"br\\-eua5l" (comment allowed by RFC 822) @example.org''.

For decoding, you would first decode the local part, apply toUnicode and
then re-apply a quoting for display.

Claus
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