email header decoding fails

[Gabriel Genellina]

En Thu, 10 Apr 2008 05:45:41 -0300, ZeeGeek <ZeeGeek at gmail.com> escribió:

> On Apr 10, 4:31 pm, "Gabriel Genellina" <gagsl-... at yahoo.com.ar>
> wrote:
>> En Wed, 09 Apr 2008 23:12:00 -0300, ZeeGeek <ZeeG... at gmail.com>  
>> escribió:
>>
>> > It seems that the decode_header function in email.Header fails when
>> > the string is in the following form,
>>
>> > '=?gb2312?Q?=D0=C7=C8=FC?=(revised)'

>>      An 'encoded-word' that appears within a
>>      'phrase' MUST be separated from any adjacent 'word', 'text' or
>>      'special' by 'linear-white-space'.
>
> Thank you very much, Gabriel.

The above just says "why" decode_header refuses to decode it, and why it's  
not a bug. But if you actually have to deal with those malformed headers,  
some heuristics may help. By example, if you *know* your mails typically  
specify gb2312 encoding, or iso-8859-1, you may look for things that look  
like the example above and "fix" it.

-- 
Gabriel Genellina