rdmur...@bitdance.com wrote: > Steve Holden <st...@holdenweb.com> wrote: >>>>> from email.header import decode_header >>>>> print >> decode_header("=?us-ascii?Q?Inteum_C/SR_User_Tip:__Quick_Access_to_Recently_Opened_Inteu?=\r\n\t=?us-ascii?Q?m_C/SR_Records?=") >> [('Inteum C/SR User Tip: Quick Access to Recently Opened Inteum C/SR >> Records', 'us-ascii')] > > It is interesting that decode_header does what I would consider to be > the right thing (from a pragmatic standpoint) with that particular bit > of Microsoft not-quite-standards-compliant brain-damage; but, removing > the tab is not in fact standards compliant if I'm reading the RFC > correctly. > You'd need to quote me chapter and verse on that. I understood that the tab simply indicated continuation, but it's a *long* time since I read the RFCs.
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