problem with internationalized headers in email package

[Manlio Perillo]

Hi.

From RFC 2047:
+ An 'encoded-word' MUST NOT appear in any portion of an 'addr-spec'.
+ An 'encoded-word' MUST NOT appear within a 'quoted-string'.
+ An 'encoded-word' MUST NOT be used in a Received header field.
+ An 'encoded-word' MUST NOT be used in parameter of a MIME
Content-Type or Content-Disposition field, or in any structured
field body except within a 'comment' or 'phrase'.


However (Python 2.5.2):

>>h = Header(u'Andrè <andre@localhos t>')
>>h.encode()

'=?utf-8?b?QW5kcsOoIDx hbmRyZUBsb2NhbG hvc3Q+?='


I'm not sure if this can be considered a bug, but surely this is an
invalid header.



Thanks Manlio Perillo

[=?UTF-8?B?Ik1hcnRpbiB2LiBMw7Z3aXMi?=]

Re: problem with internationaliz ed headers in email package

+ An 'encoded-word' MUST NOT appear in any portion of an 'addr-spec'.

+ An 'encoded-word' MUST NOT appear within a 'quoted-string'.
+ An 'encoded-word' MUST NOT be used in a Received header field.
+ An 'encoded-word' MUST NOT be used in parameter of a MIME
Content-Type or Content-Disposition field, or in any structured
field body except within a 'comment' or 'phrase'.
>
>
However (Python 2.5.2):
>

>>>h = Header(u'Andrè <andre@localhos t>')
>>>h.encode()

'=?utf-8?b?QW5kcsOoIDx hbmRyZUBsb2NhbG hvc3Q+?='
>
>
I'm not sure if this can be considered a bug, but surely this is an
invalid header.

Which of the conditions do you consider validated? It seems to me that
this would make a completely correct Subject header, for example.

Regards,
Martin