Comment 10 for bug 369150

I will begin by saying that I should indeed have opened two different bug
reports as, even though the issues are are related, this surely affects two very
different part of the code (I do believe that they should be corrected at the
same time however).

Mike Cowperthwaite said:

> Thanks for your insistence

No problem... I use Mozilla, I like it and I wanted it to get it right...

Keith Moore said (Hi!):

> Adding quotes to a name before encoding that name using 2047 is not strictly
> wrong, but it can produce annoying cruft on a recipient's display. (there are
> lots of annoying things that MUAs do to people's names - this is just another
> one)
>
> On the other hand, if a sender's MUA adds double quotes before encoding it
> might help to work around bugs in some recipients' MUAs that try to decode
> 2047 encoded-words and then parse the resulting text.

I hope you won't mind if I have a different opinion on this (especially after
harassing you so much... (-; or )-; ? ).

If the only reason for these quotes is to work around bugs in other MUA than I
think that they *should not* be added. If we use workarounds instead of
correcting the problem then they *will never* correct it and eventually assume
that the ones who got it right were wrong.

What I believe is (unfortunatly) the most popular MUA already got it right,
Mozilla will (eventually) get it right and other MUA are already getting it
right when they *send* their messages.

If one wants to have quote to workaround another MUA's bug then they could type
them in Mozilla's "Your name:" field.

What do you think?

Thanks!

Nick

PS: Please forgive my English as it is not my mother tongue. Thanks!