Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 16 May 2007 08:11:58 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Pekka Pietikainen goes UTF-8 |
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Jan Engelhardt wrote: > On May 15 2007 23:05, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> Pekka Pietikainen wrote: >>> Since everyone else is doing it, why not me as well. Looks like I had >>> a nice retro 7-bit a-umlaut in the tree from ten years ago too! >>> (That was back when ISO 8859-1 didn't work universally...). >>> I hope my mailer is setup correctly for this, >>> http://www.ee.oulu.fi/~pp/pp-goes-utf8.patch has the same in >>> case something in the middle munges up the utf-8. >> Your message came through tagged as iso-8859-1. > > Which perhaps is best, because UTF-8 is 'valid' ISO-8859-1 afaict, > while the reverse is not true.
NAK. The vast majority of UTF-8 is *not* valid ISO-8859-1. These kinds of patches really should be sent as binary attachments (although not necessarily *compressed* such, and 8-bit encoding would be better than base64, but that seems to be a lot to ask from an MUA.)
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