Bug#787513: perl: small failure in RFC2047 eMail header encoding

[Niko Tyni]

On Tue, Jun 02, 2015 at 02:04:57PM +0200, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> Package: perl
> Version: 5.20.2-6
> Severity: normal

> printf '%s' "[service-Aufgaben S&W-Team][#19415] VM''s aufsetzen mit unterschiedlichen" | \
>     perl -C7 -0777 -Mutf8 -MEncode -e "print encode('MIME-Q', 'Subject: ' . <>);"

> Subject: [service-Aufgaben S&W-Team][#19415] VM''
>  s aufsetzen mit unterschiedlichen

Thanks, looks buggy to me too. Interestingly decoding the output with
MIME-Q seems to have the same bug so it roundtrips correctly.

You might want to run your test suite on the MIME-EncWords implementation too,
available in the libmime-encwords-perl package. It seems to get at least this one right.

% printf '%s' "[service-Aufgaben S&W-Team][#19415] VM''s aufsetzen mit unterschiedlichen" | \
    perl -C7 -0777 -MEncode::MIME::EncWords -Mutf8 -MEncode -e "print encode('MIME-EncWords-Q', 'Subject: ' . <>);"
Subject: [service-Aufgaben S&W-Team][#19415] VM''s aufsetzen mit
 unterschiedlichen

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