From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sat, 02 Aug 2008 16:40:51 GMT
Subject: Re: email address handling
Message-ID: <7vabfvpdyk.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0808020916370.3318@nehalem.linux-foundation.org>

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
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.