Hi James, *, On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 11:50 AM, James Wilde <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mar 12, 2012, at 10:45 , Florian Effenberger wrote: > [...] > I agree. My mailer does, but the code for UTF-8 in the From and Subject > fields appears to be some kind of html code. Whenever there are non-ascii characters in the subject/any other header field, it is mime-encoded. http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2047#section-8 (examples) ################# MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) Part Three: Message Header Extensions for Non-ASCII Text [...] The following are examples of message headers containing 'encoded- word's: From: =?US-ASCII?Q?Keith_Moore?= <[email protected]> To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Keld_J=F8rn_Simonsen?= <[email protected]> CC: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Andr=E9?= Pirard <[email protected]> Subject: =?ISO-8859-1?B?SWYgeW91IGNhbiByZWFkIHRoaXMgeW8=?= =?ISO-8859-2?B?dSB1bmRlcnN0YW5kIHRoZSBleGFtcGxlLg==?= ################# all valid, although the From one is unnecessary. both quoted printable as well as base64 variants are shown, examples with different charsets are shown (although it is not common to use different encodings, and even less common to mix them in one single header field) I never saw html in from and/or subject lines ever, not in spam, not in other posts. > Otherwise the UTF-8 coding appears somewhere in the header, I believe. And >I've never seen the string I quoted anywhere other than in these two fields. You did not quote any string. you did say it starts with "=utf-8?" (and probably missed a ? here), but didn't quote the string. A charset definition is not spam nor html. And while it is true that most spam has this trait (as most spam that passes the filters is from china or russia and hence need to encode the text), the opposite conclusion (everything that has encoded characters is spam) is wrong. ciao Christian -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/moderators/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
