[rt-users] RT doesn't decode attachment file names

[Derek D. Martin]

On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 11:03:57AM +0200, Bruce Campbell wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Jun 2002, Sebastian Flothow wrote:
> 
> > One of our transactions has an attachment with the name
> > "FS BIO =?iso-8859-1?Q?PR=C4SENTIERT2=2Edoc?=" - RT (or whatever
> > module RT uses for MIME parsing) obviously forgot to decode this.
[SNIP]
> 	words in the Content-Type or Content-Disposition fields.  Although
> 	this is specifically disallowed by RFC 2047, again, some Windoze mail
> 	clients may make the "obvious" interpretation and decode the words.
> 
> So, not a bug with RT, but the underlying module it depends on.

Not even so much a bug with the module, as it is yet another failure
of Microsoft to comply with Internet standards...

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Derek Martin
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