* 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]