Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Whining about MIME formatted email | Date | Sat, 09 Sep 2000 21:14:36 -0400 | From | Horst von Brand <> |
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"Albert D. Cahalan" <acahalan@cs.uml.edu> said:
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> That would be the "H=F8jland" in your .sig, right? > No problem, '=' is a standard character. > > My MUA has been RFC-compliant since before this "MIME" thing existed, > so I can see the full ASCII character set. That includes the carat, > underscore, back tick, backslash, vertical bar, at symbol, octothorpe, > and both braces.
That is a really upsetting US/ASCII/English-centric view. How would you feel if the prevalent, "standard" character set didn't include 'h' and _your_ name showed up as "Albert D. Ca=68alan" elsewhere?!
That your MUA is RFC-compliant is nice, but in this case the RFC was shortsighted. My MUA and MTA are at least able to handle Latin-1 (and probably other charsets too, never tried). -- Horst von Brand vonbrand@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl Casilla 9G, Vin~a del Mar, Chile +56 32 672616 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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