#2995: Mutt is folding subject line folds using a tab, which appears to be
against
RFC 2822
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Reporter: frnkblk | Owner: pdmef
Type: defect | Status: started
Priority: minor | Milestone: 1.6
Component: mutt | Version: 1.5.17
Resolution: | Keywords: header folding white-space
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Comment(by pdmef):
Looking at it again, the only things requiring a display/send mode
distinction are:
* Tabs. For display, given the current column we need to determine where
\t would end. For sending, we can just go with a byte per tab for line
width computation. This is harmless as a too high line length for the
sending case makes us wrap too early, not too late.
* Spaces. For display, we probably want locale aware iswspace() instead
of just testing for space or tab. For sending, any multibyte space is
RFC2047-encoded already. (I frequently receive messages with braindead
subjects that end in non-breaking space(s)). This is harmless, too, I
think since the majority of header should either contain space or tab for
separating words.
Are there more cases I miss?
Because it'd take some time to trace code paths to say whether a call is
for display or for sending, I think it's better to ignore these two issues
for now, back the change by thorough unit tests and do it right later on.
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Ticket URL: <http://dev.mutt.org/trac/ticket/2995#comment:30>
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