From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sat, 02 Aug 2008 16:42:11 GMT
Subject: Re: email address handling
Message-ID: <7v3alnpdwc.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vabfvpdyk.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:
>
>> On Sat, 2 Aug 2008, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
>>> 
>>> Ah, there lies the rub (you forgot that the original complaint was about 
>>> a comma, and pretty=email does not handle those):
>>
>> Indeed.
>>
>> I wonder where that is_rfc2047_special() function came from.  The list of 
>> "special" characters is totally bogus.
>
> This function is about quoting inside dq pair, so the function does not

s/is about/is NOT about/;

Sorry, I should grab coffee before continuing.

> look at the set you listed.  It is about quoting non-ascii chars using the
> ?charset?Q? or ?charset?B? notation.
>
> If we want to use double quotes that should be done elsewhere, not in that
> function.