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RFC 5322, "Internet Message Format", October 2008

Note: This RFC has been updated by RFC 6854

Source of RFC: IETF - NON WORKING GROUP
Area Assignment: app

Errata ID: 4692
Status: Held for Document Update
Type: Technical
Publication Format(s) : TEXT
Reported By: Oleg Andriyanov
Date Reported: 2016-05-13
Held for Document Update by: Barry Leiba
Date Held: 2019-04-30

Section 3.2.4 says: 

   qtext           =   %d33 /             ; Printable US-ASCII
                       %d35-91 /          ;  characters not including
                       %d93-126 /         ;  "\" or the quote character
                       obs-qtext

It should say:

   qtext           =   %d32 /             ; Printable US-ASCII
                       %d33 /             ;  characters not including
                       %d35-91 /          ;  "\" or the quote character
                       %d93-126 /
                       obs-qtext

Notes:

According to the Open Group's definition of the "print" class of characters in a locale [1], the SPACE character (%d32) is printable as well. So either it should be included in the "qtext" definition or the comment should state explicitly that it is excluded from "qtext" along with backslash and double quote.

[1]: pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/xbd_chap07.html

----- Verifier notes -----
There are many places in the document that refer to "printable US-ASCII characters", and it's clear from the context of them that SPACE was not included there. This issue does need to be looked at when we revise this document to advance it to Internet Standard.

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