söndag 24 juni 2007 skrev David Kastrup: > 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. > Please don't quote me when the content is not in reference to me or what I've written. -- robin - 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
