Re: Interpretation of RFC 2047

On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, Keith Moore wrote:
> > By my reading of RFC 987, if a PrintableString is used in a context
> > where something like unquoted "(a)" could be misinterpreted as a
> > comment, then the entire PrintableString must be further encoded in an
> > RFC 822 quoted-string.  
> 
> perhaps.  but this was not done in practice.

OK.  I managed to avoid encountering such cases.

--apb (Alan Barrett)