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Diffstat (limited to 'g10/misc.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | g10/misc.c | 15 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/g10/misc.c b/g10/misc.c index 5325faab9..b0e5e2ce1 100644 --- a/g10/misc.c +++ b/g10/misc.c @@ -1248,17 +1248,16 @@ unescape_percent_string (const unsigned char *s) } -/* Check whether the string has characters not valid in an RFC822 +/* Check whether the string has characters not valid in an RFC-822 address. To cope with OpenPGP we ignore allow non-ascii characters so that for example umlauts are legal in an email address. An - OpenPGP user ID must be utf-8 encoded and tehre is no strict + OpenPGP user ID must be utf-8 encoded but there is no strict requirement for RFC-822. Thus to avoid IDNA encoding we put the - address verbatim as utf-8 into the user ID under the assumtiopn - that mail programs etc handle IDNA at a lower level and take - OpenPGP user IDS as utf-8. Note that we can't do an utf-8 encoding - checking here becuase in keygen.c this function is called with the - native encoding and native to utf-8 encoding is done only after - checking. */ + address verbatim as utf-8 into the user ID under the assumption + that mail programs handle IDNA at a lower level and take OpenPGP + user IDs as utf-8. Note that we can't do an utf-8 encoding + checking here because in keygen.c this function is called with the + native encoding and native to utf-8 encoding is only done later. */ int has_invalid_email_chars (const char *s) { |