Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg.lists@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > I was still in referernce to those "local conditions" at that > point. It was not meant as a universal statement. Substitutute that > for "A small bunch of swedish speaking people from Stockholm". A wrong encoding is a wrong encoding. Escaping the characters in transition will not magically make the encodings adapt. Escaping characters buys us exactly zilch _unless_ the _channel_ is not 8-bit clean. In which case we should use a normal mail-armoring/attachment/inline data wrapper. In fact, when using editors with some heuristics regarding character sets (like Emacs), leaving 8-bit characters intact gives the editor a chance to guess the correct character set even if it is not the default on the receiving end. Escaping the characters, in contrast, just hides 8-bit usage away in transition. An escaped character in the wrong encoding will get reconstituted into the wrong encoding. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
