return undef if not defined $rawstr;
# We process words in reverse so we can preserve spacing between
# encoded words. This regex splits on word|nonword boundaries and
- # nonword|nonword boundaries.
- my @words = reverse split /(?:(?<=[\s\n])|(?=[\s\n]))/m, $rawstr;
+ # nonword|nonword boundaries. We also consider parenthesis and "
+ # to be nonwords to avoid escaping them in comments in violation
+ # of RFC1522
+ my @words = reverse split /(?:(?<=[\s\n\)\(\"])|(?=[\s\n\)\(\"]))/m, $rawstr;
my $previous_word_encoded = 0;
my $string = '';
if (length $encoded > 75) {
# Turn utf8 into the internal perl representation
# so . is a character, not a byte.
- my $tempstr = decode_utf8($word,Encode::FB_DEFAULT);
+ my $tempstr = is_utf8($word)?$word:decode_utf8($word,Encode::FB_DEFAULT);
my @encoded;
# Strip it into 10 character long segments, and encode
# the segments