Re: [openpgp] User ID conventions (it's not really a RFC2822 name-addr)

["brian m. carlson" <[e-mail]>]

On 2019-11-05 at 22:35:11, Neal H. Walfield wrote:
> I'm considering using the following "grammar".  (I've put grammar in
> scare quotes, because it is not a valid grammar according to RFC 5322
> due to several ambiguities.  In particular, the production "*WS
> [name] *WS" is ambiguous when applied to a string containing a single
> whitespace character: the whitespace character could match the first
> WS or the second one.  In practice, this ambiguity doesn't matter,
> because we only care about what the "name", "comment-content" and
> "addr-spec" productions match.)
> 
>      WS                 = 0x20 (space character)
> 
>      comment-specials   = "<" / ">" /   ; RFC 2822 specials - "(" and ")"
>                           "[" / "]" /
>                           ":" / ";" /
>                           "@" / "\" /
>                           "," / "." /
>                           DQUOTE
> 
>      atext-specials     = "(" / ")" /   ; RFC 2822 specials - "<" and ">".
>                           "[" / "]" /
>                           ":" / ";" /
>                           "@" / "\" /
>                           "," / "." /
>                           DQUOTE
> 
>      atext              = ALPHA / DIGIT /   ; Any character except controls,
>                           "!" / "#" /       ;  SP, and specials.
>                           "$" / "%" /       ;  Used for atoms
>                           "&" / "'" /
>                           "*" / "+" /
>                           "-" / "/" /
>                           "=" / "?" /
>                           "^" / "_" /
>                           "`" / "{" /
>                           "|" / "}" /
>                           "~" /
>                           \u{80}-\u{10ffff} ; Non-ascii, non-control UTF-8
> 
>      name-char-start    = atext / atext-specials
> 
>      name-char-rest     = atext / atext-specials / WS
> 
>      name               = name-char-start *name-char-rest
> 
>      comment-char       = atext / comment-specials / WS
> 
>      comment-content    = *comment-char
> 
>      comment            = "(" *WS comment-content *WS ")"
> 
>      addr-spec          = dot-atom-text "@" dot-atom-text

dot-atom-text isn't defined here, so it isn't clear to me what it
includes.  Does it permit UTF-8 in addresses according to the SMTPUTF8
RFCs?
-- 
brian m. carlson: Houston, Texas, US
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