Date: Sun, 15 Oct 1995 20:28:36 EST From: "Kaleb S. KEITHLEY" <kaleb@x.org> To: hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) Subject: Re: A couple problems in FreeBSD 2.1.0-950922-SNAP Message-ID: <199510160028.UAA06809@exalt.x.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of Mon, 16 Oct 1995 00:12:01 EST. <199510152312.AAA22414@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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> As Kaleb S. KEITHLEY wrote: > > > > That notwithstanding, I agree with Joerg, it's a hack and users shouldn't > > have to resort to hacks to have things work correctly or reasonably, or > > even reasonably correctly. > > Speaking about internationalization, when will xbugs@x.org accept > mails with the 8th bit set? :--) > Oh good, I was hoping you'd bring this up. :-) Expo.x.org is our mail hub, it handles the xpert mailing list and dozens of other internal and external mailing lists. It has to work and it has to work correctly in order to maximize the probability of correct delivery of thousands of email messages each day. Expo follows RFC 821/822 to the letter. It's not convenient, but it does blindly adhere to the rules. Everyone else in the world seems to be overlooking the rules, mostly it seems because it's inconvenient to to follow the rules set out in the RFCs. Along the same line, it'd be really convenient if the default chartype table had its right side populated for ISO8859-1 so that broken tools could still manage to do the right thing most of the time. -- Kaleb
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