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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Subject: Re: [BUG] format-patch does not wrap From-field after author name
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 23:30:03 -0400
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On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 12:43:08AM +0200, Erik Faye-Lund wrote:

> >> That part is surprisingly easy: If it contains a '<', then it's on=
 the form
> >> "Foo Bar Baz <foo@bar.baz>". If not, it's "foo@bar.baz" (assuming =
it's
> >> UTF-8 encoded rfc5322 mailbox'es we assume, which would make the m=
ost
> >> sense to me)
> >
> > What about:
> >
> > =C2=A0"Foo \"The Bar\" Baz" <foo@example.com>
> >
> > or
> >
> > =C2=A0Foo "The Bar" Baz <foo@example.com>
> >
> > or
> >
> > =C2=A0Foo (The Bar) Baz <foo@example.com>
> >
> > I.e., are we taking rfc822-style addresses, or are we taking someth=
ing
> > that looks vaguely like an email address, and just treating everyth=
ing
> > left of "<" as literal?
>=20
> I was just thinking of interpreting everything left of '<' literally
> and encode it (if needed). Currently, we interpret the entire string
> literally, encoding the name would an improvement.

Won't that be a regression for people who already know that we take
things literally and are manually quoting and/or rfc2047-encoding the
contents?

-Peff