From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 25 11:49: 8 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F05F37B401 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 2002 11:49:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from rwcrmhc53.attbi.com (rwcrmhc53.attbi.com [204.127.198.39]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCD7843EA9 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 2002 11:49:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from swear@attbi.com) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([12.242.158.67]) by rwcrmhc53.attbi.com (rwcrmhc53) with ESMTP id <20021125194906053004bllce>; Mon, 25 Nov 2002 19:49:06 +0000 Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localdomain (8.12.6/8.12.5) with ESMTP id gAPJnOd8079115; Mon, 25 Nov 2002 11:49:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from swear@attbi.com) Received: (from jojo@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.12.6/8.12.5/Submit) id gAPJnI3W079112; Mon, 25 Nov 2002 11:49:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from swear@attbi.com) X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.localdomain: jojo set sender to swear@attbi.com using -f To: Roman Neuhauser Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Find abandoned packages References: <000801c2915e$be8907c0$6400a8c0@windows> <9eel9eaber.l9e@localhost.localdomain> <20021125091339.GR77198@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> From: swear@attbi.com (Gary W. Swearingen) Date: 25 Nov 2002 11:49:17 -0800 In-Reply-To: <20021125091339.GR77198@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> Message-ID: Lines: 20 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Roman Neuhauser writes: > Actually, it's not non-ASCII characters or MSFT products that causes > problems. It's fucked up mail clients that send messages that > fallaciously claim to be using charset X when they're really in Y. > > Incidentally, these mail clients are MSFT products. Please correct me if you really know better (I'm no email expert), but I'm fairly sure that e-mail is still supposed to be "7-bit clean" so it can go (without encoding/decoding) through 7-bit lines (maybe with parity on the 8th line), etc. Or has this been officially changed? What you say about MSFT's fallacious charset claims is certainly true of HTML/HTTP, except that more often they make no claim of charset at all, expecting the world to conform to their charset by default. As for HTML/MIME, I don't know if MIME supports the encoding of non-7-bit HTML characters into 7-bit code, or if it expects 7-bit-clean HTML. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message