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1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/email/email.scm b/email/email.scm
index 2c4178e..f276019 100644
--- a/email/email.scm
+++ b/email/email.scm
@@ -605,7 +605,14 @@ values. The returned headers is a string and body is a bytevector."
(call-with-port
(open-bytevector-input-port email)
(lambda (port)
- (set-port-encoding! port "us-ascii")
+ ;; Email headers must strictly be ASCII characters. But for the
+ ;; sake of supporting Emacs message mode parens style addresses
+ ;; that may use non-ASCII characters, typically for the full
+ ;; name, we relax this requirement. We assume an encoding of
+ ;; UTF-8, and hope that everything turns out fine. Since UTF-8
+ ;; is a superset of ASCII, this should not affect standards
+ ;; conforming headers.
+ (set-port-encoding! port "utf-8")
(let ((headers (read-while port get-line-with-delimiter
(lambda (line)
(not (or (string= line "\n")