Re: [Nmh-workers] Weird behavior with non-ascii code in headers

[Ken Hornstein]

>This apparently gives multiple parts of nmh indigestion in components,
>as both of the following *silently* give up when they hit the 0xED, and
>fail to output the rest of the name or email address.
>
>%(decode(friendly{from})
>%(formataddr{to})
>
>Found this out the hard way - had my reply mail bounce because my reply
>to the mail had 'To: Mar' and my MTA freaked.

It might be interesting to understand the failure there.

>Yes, I know dealing with untagged non-ascii that contains characters not
>in the current locale (0xED isn't valid UTF-8), but surely we can do
>better than silently fail?

Sigh.  It's a tough problem.  Let me ask you: what do you want to happen?

--Ken