Date: 25 Nov 2002 11:49:17 -0800 From: swear@attbi.com (Gary W. Swearingen) To: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@bellavista.cz> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Find abandoned packages Message-ID: <tpfztp8m6a.ztp@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <20021125091339.GR77198@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> References: <000801c2915e$be8907c0$6400a8c0@windows> <9eel9eaber.l9e@localhost.localdomain> <20021125091339.GR77198@freepuppy.bellavista.cz>
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Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@bellavista.cz> 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
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