296077 - concatenate two encoded words (RFC 2047) into one before converting to Unicode, if possible

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 286551

(MailNews Core :: Internationalization, enhancement)

Description

[Jungshik Shin]

Some buggy email programs (especially web mail services) violate RFC 2047 and
split a single character in a multibyte encoding into two encoded words. The
following was taken from an email I received from a Yahoo user. 

Subject: =?euc-kr?q?Re:=20[ks2]=20=B0=AD=B3=B2=BF=AA=C0=CC=B3=AA=20=BE=E7=C0=E7=BF?=
 =?euc-kr?q?=AA=BF=A1=BC=AD...?=

In the above example, '=BF' in the first encoded word and '=AA' in the second
encoded word represents a single Korean character. 

This is rather tricky because different encoded words can be in different
character encodings. Eventually, I may end up resolving this as 'wont fix', but
let's see what can be done for a while.

Comment 1

[Simon Montagu :smontagu]

dupe of bug 286551?

Comment 2

[Jungshik Shin]

ooops. thanks for pointing that out.


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 286551 ***