templates/filters: strip quotes from {author|person} RFC5322 (Internet Message Format) [0] says that the 'display name' of an internet address [1] (what Mercurial calls 'person') can be quoted with DQUOTE (ASCII 34: ") if it contains non-atom characters [2]. For example, dot '.' is a non-atom character. Also, DQUOTEs in a quoted string will be escaped using "\" [2][3]. The current {author|person} template+filter just extracts the part before an email address as-is. This can look ugly, especially on the web interface, or when generating output for post-processing... Moreover, as an example, the Mercurial repository has a bunch of incoherent uses of DQUOTES in author names. As per Matt's digging: $ hg log --template "{author|person}\n" | grep '"' | sort | uniq "Andrei Vermel "Aurelien Jacobs "Daniel Santa Cruz "Hidetaka Iwai "Hiroshi Funai" "Mathieu Clabaut "Paul Moore "Peter Arrenbrecht" "Rafael Villar Burke "Shun-ichi GOTO" "Wallace, Eric S" "Yann E. MORIN" Josef "Jeff" Sipek Radoslaw "AstralStorm" Szkodzinski Fix the 'person' filter to remove leading and trailing DQUOTES, and unescape remaining DQUOTES. Given this author: "J. \"random\" DOE" <john@doe.net> before: {author|person} : "J. \"random\" DOE" after: {author|person} : J. "random" DOE For the Mercurial repository, that leaves us with two authors with DQUOTES, in acceptable positions: $ hg log --template "{author|person}\n" | grep '"' | sort | uniq Josef "Jeff" Sipek Radoslaw "AstralStorm" Szkodzinski [0] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5322 [1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5322#section-3.4 [2] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5322#section-3.2.4 [3] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5322#section-3.2.1 Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>

--- a/mercurial/templatefilters.py	Thu Mar 08 15:59:44 2012 -0600
+++ b/mercurial/templatefilters.py	Tue Mar 06 23:23:30 2012 +0100
@@ -242,12 +242,14 @@
     return "-rw-r--r--"
 
 def person(author):
-    """:person: Any text. Returns the text before an email address."""
+    """:person: Any text. Returns the name before an email address,
+    interpreting it as per RFC 5322.
+    """
     if not '@' in author:
         return author
     f = author.find('<')
     if f != -1:
-        return author[:f].rstrip()
+        return author[:f].strip(' "').replace('\\"', '"')
     f = author.find('@')
     return author[:f].replace('.', ' ')