From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Dec 19 09:33:01 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id JAA01244 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 19 Dec 1996 09:33:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from mexico.brainstorm.eu.org (root@mexico.brainstorm.fr [193.56.58.253]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id JAA01226 for ; Thu, 19 Dec 1996 09:32:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from brasil.brainstorm.eu.org (brasil.brainstorm.fr [193.56.58.33]) by mexico.brainstorm.eu.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA12222 for ; Thu, 19 Dec 1996 18:32:31 +0100 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by brasil.brainstorm.eu.org (8.6.12/8.6.12) with UUCP id SAA01549 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Thu, 19 Dec 1996 18:32:10 +0100 Received: (from roberto@localhost) by keltia.freenix.fr (8.8.4/keltia-uucp-2.9) id HAA20852; Thu, 19 Dec 1996 07:29:00 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 19 Dec 1996 07:29:00 +0100 From: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert) To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 8-bit characters in gecos field References: <199612182104.OAA10394@phaeton.artisoft.com> <199612190449.UAA29473@freefall.freebsd.org> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.54 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT ctm#2815 In-Reply-To: <199612190449.UAA29473@freefall.freebsd.org>; from David Nugent on Dec 19, 1996 15:49:09 +1100 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk According to David Nugent: > Perhaps our ports can be patched to do q-p translation if they > don't already? Most imap2bis servers support MIME in any case. Automatic conversion is not always a good idea. The PGP/MIME future standard encodes somethings in QP when signing in order to preserve characters and converting them means that you lose the signature. -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- The daemon is FREE! -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 3.0-CURRENT #31: Tue Dec 3 23:52:58 CET 1996