This Emacs Lisp function is supposed to give me RFC 2047 by using external command:
(defun rcd-mailutils-flt2047 (string &optional encoding q-or-b) (let* ((encoding (or encoding "utf-8")) (q-or-b (or "Q" q-or-b)) (command (format "mailutils flt2047 -c %s -E%s \"%s\"" encoding q-or-b string)) (result (string-trim (shell-command-to-string command)))) result)) And I get this: (rcd-mailutils-flt2047 "Č <bugs@gnu.support>") "=?utf-8?Q?=C4=8C_<bugs@gnu.support>?=" And then mail complains that email address is not valid. If I use the built in Emacs function then I get different result: (rfc2047-encode-string "Č <bugs@gnu.support>") "=?utf-8?Q?=C4=8C?= <bugs@gnu.support>" Another question is if `mailutils flt2047' really needs to encode something what need not be encoded, as this below is also not encoding it: (rfc2047-encode-string "ABC <bugs@gnu.support>") "ABC <bugs@gnu.support>" while this is encoding: (rfc2047-encode-string "ABČ <bugs@gnu.support>") "=?utf-8?Q?AB=C4=8C?= <bugs@gnu.support>" while this is also encoding which is probably not necessary and probably incorrect. (rcd-mailutils-flt2047 "ABC <bugs@gnu.support>") "=?utf-8?Q?ABC_<bugs@gnu.support>?=" Maybe the function from mailutils asks me to parse and separate name from the email address. It is just hypothetical question on how it should be. -- Thanks, Jean Louis ⎔ λ 🄯 𝍄 𝌡 𝌚