linear whitespace [was: RFC-2047 & encoded QP text]

[David Relson]

At 09:30 AM 7/28/03, Boris 'pi' Piwinger wrote:
>David Relson wrote:
>
> > Consider the following:
> >
> > Subject: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?linear?= =?ISO-8859-1?Q?whitespace?=
> >
> > The current lexer gives "linear whitespace".  Removing spaces would, in
> > this case, be wrong.
>
>No, it would be correct. The RfC says that linear white
>space between encoded words must be ignored.

Ah.  RFC-2047, page 9, paragraph 1.

So, my example is wrong.  What I've encoded is "linearwhitespace", not 
"linear whitespace".  Interesting.

When I figure out the needed change, I'll make it.  Until then, we have a 
lexer that, although better than before, is not quite right.   Sigh :-(

David