> zifnab@rhein-neckar.netsurf.de (Heiko Nock) wrote:
> |Is there a special reason, why character translation to ISO Latin1 is
> |only applied to the message body, but not to the subject line ?
> Yes - the applicable standards do not allow 8-bit characters in header
> lines. Only a subset of ASCII is allowed in headers, and other characters
> have to be encoded according to a rather messy protocol.
Hmm... not so messy, actually, works much the same way,
Quoted-Printable does. It goes like =?<CHARSET-ID>?Q?<HEADER_FIELD>?=
where <HEADER_FIELD> is qp-encoded, with space characters converted to
'_' or you have each word encoded separately, according to the scheme
described above. Still... yarn can't decode it... sniff :(
-- Lukasz Grochal.