Comment 9 for bug 369150

I agree that adding quotes to a name before encoding is a separate issue than
how an MUA handles decoding and presentation of 2047 encoded-words.

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.

-- Keith Moore <email address hidden>