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RFC 2445: "=" char is delimiter



Hi All,

There are few quotation from RFC 2445:

>4.1 Content Lines
...
>     contentline        = name *(";" param ) ":" value CRLF
...
>     param              = param-name "=" param-value
...
>     param-value        = paramtext / quoted-string
>     paramtext  = *SAFE-CHAR
...
>     SAFE-CHAR  = WSP / %x21 / %x23-2B / %x2D-39 / %x3C-7E
>                / NON-US-ASCII
>     ; Any character except CTLs, DQUOTE, ";", ":", ","

As far as I can see, the "=" (%x3D) used as a delimiter in 'param'
rule and included in 'SAFE-CHAR' list at the same time.

Does it sound strange to anybody here except me?

Michael
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