* Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-04-18 17:57]:
> I've just received a message with these headers:
> 
> Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=DCberpr=FCfun?=
>         =?iso-8859-1?Q?g?= von E-Mail Adressen?
> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i
> 
> Is this the "best" way to encode the
> word "Überprüfung" at this position?

No.  Better is "Test".  ;-)

> What makes me wonder, is why the "g" has been put
> on the next line and why it was encoded at all?

i suppose the mail user agent decided
to split the rest onto the next line.

> I'm not too sure on the RfC part,
> but I would have expected something like:
> Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=DCberpr=FCfung?=
>         von E-Mail Adressen?

tell the programmers of that mail client then!

> Hmm, and why was the "g" encoded with iso-8859-1?

Because RFC0815 defines it as an Ueber-Umlaut. ;-)

Sven  [whio never uses umlauts in headers, anyway]

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