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

"Neal H. Walfield" <neal@walfield.org> Wed, 06 November 2019 11:49 UTC

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Subject: Re: [openpgp] User ID conventions (it's not really a RFC2822 name-addr)
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On Tue, 05 Nov 2019 23:35:11 +0100,
Neal H. Walfield wrote:
> I'm a bit concerned about allowing the backslash character: with this
> grammar, it is just a normal character, but for an RFC 2822 parser,
> it's an escape character.  Since User IDs may be used in contexts
> where RFC 2822 things are expected, we should be careful.  But, I fear
> that if we reject it, we'll end up gratuitiously rejecting some
> emojis.  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

The double quote character has a similar problem.

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