Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > It has been a while since I looked at rfc2822, but aren't the quoting > and syntax rules different for addresses versus other headers? We would > not want to dequote a Subject header, I think. You're absolutely right. RFC2822 does not quite _want_ to dequote anything. As you pointed out in a separate message, we are the one who want to strip out "" quoting when mailinfo says Author: "Jeff King" to its standard output (aka "info"), and turn it into GIT_AUTHOR_NAME='Jeff King' and do so ONLY for the author name. So I would think it is the responsibility of the one that reads the "info" file that is produced by mailinfo to dequote the backslash thing if the mailinfo gave us Author: "Jeff \"Peff\" King"