On 10/22/2012 05:25 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: > > Am 22.10.2012 11:20, schrieb Ed Greshko: >> On 10/22/2012 05:16 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: >>> Am 22.10.2012 11:08, schrieb Ed Greshko: >>>> My statement was in regards to "email" messages. Still you get a >>>> "crap" vs. "crap" trade-off as shown in another message. >>>> I see many people whining about the message bodies being encoded >>>> in base64 or Q-P. It just doesn't bother me >>> well, compare the size of plaintext with base64 >>> >>> 1,4M 2012-10-22 11:15 test.base64 >>> 1,0M 2012-10-22 11:14 test.txt >>> >>> have fun on low bandwidth and with IMAp quotas...... >>> >> Another "strike" against using UTF-7 in emails to this list is that the messages "lose" information in the archives... >> >> http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2012-October/425826.html >> >> Now, you tell me how someone trying to get information out of the archives is supposed to grok ... > no, something MANGELED the message > this is a bug in whatever piece of software did it > > the argumentation that somewhere is a bug is a reason > to change standards is broken - the bug has to be fixed > not a valid encoding > > It isn't mangled. It is stored as UTF-7. [egreshko@meimei ~]$ echo "+ACMAIQ-/bin/bash" | iconv -f utf7 -t utf8 #!/bin/bash Now, you can either argue that the list server software needs to be "fixed" or "configured" to do the transformation so you can continue to use your UTF-7..... Or you can be a "good citizen" and use UTF-8....at least until the problem that you're going to bugzilla is fixed. -- Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning. -- Rick Cook, The Wizardry Compiled
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