From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>
Cc: Jan Hudec <bulb@ucw.cz>, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Stupid quoting...
Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2007 21:47:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <85ejk1cexn.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200706242139.44708.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com> (Robin Rosenberg's message of "Sun\, 24 Jun 2007 21\:39\:44 +0200")
Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com> 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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-24 19:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-13 11:30 Stupid quoting David Kastrup
2007-06-13 12:06 ` Alex Riesen
2007-06-13 12:21 ` Johannes Schindelin
[not found] ` <86ejkgvxmb.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz>
2007-06-14 0:51 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-06-14 6:12 ` David Kastrup
2007-06-14 7:06 ` Alex Riesen
[not found] ` <86hcpb6lr6.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz>
2007-06-14 8:51 ` Alex Riesen
2007-06-14 1:06 ` Steven Grimm
2007-06-14 1:12 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-06-14 1:19 ` Steven Grimm
2007-06-14 1:34 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-06-14 8:49 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-06-16 21:03 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-06-18 8:00 ` David Kastrup
2007-06-18 16:19 ` Jeff King
2007-06-19 1:00 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-06-19 7:44 ` David Kastrup
2007-06-19 9:50 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-06-19 20:53 ` Olivier Galibert
[not found] ` <86645kutow.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz>
2007-06-20 2:19 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-06-20 6:19 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-06-20 7:49 ` David Kastrup
2007-06-20 8:40 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-06-20 8:59 ` David Kastrup
2007-06-24 6:50 ` Jan Hudec
2007-06-24 11:14 ` Robin Rosenberg
2007-06-24 11:47 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-06-24 11:58 ` David Kastrup
2007-06-24 12:19 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-06-24 12:41 ` Jeff King
2007-06-24 16:25 ` Jan Hudec
2007-06-24 19:39 ` Robin Rosenberg
2007-06-24 19:47 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2007-06-24 20:17 ` Robin Rosenberg
2007-06-24 20:25 ` David Kastrup
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