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bug#33613: 25.2; mail-header-parse-address: scan-error "Unbalanced paren
From: |
micah anderson |
Subject: |
bug#33613: 25.2; mail-header-parse-address: scan-error "Unbalanced parenthesis" 7 32 |
Date: |
Tue, 04 Dec 2018 14:46:56 -0500 |
Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> writes:
> micah anderson wrote:
>
>> mail-header-parse-address("dr ebs (\\_O<) <dre@foo.net>")
>
> It could probably be handled more elegantly, but IIUC
>
> "dr ebs (\\_O<) <dre@foo.net>"
>
> isn't valid in an email header, because the () are special characters
> that should be quoted in the display name, per RFC5322.
Yeah, the text that comes before the <dre@foo.net> in an OpenPGP userID
is defined as arbitrary UTF-8 text, so it should not be considered to be
following any email address standard.
--
micah