From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: email address handling Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 15:49:43 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: <20080801124550.26b9efc0.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080801131127.20b3acfd.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080801132415.0b0314e4.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080801135421.5ca0f6af.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <7vvdykqub6.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <20080801145804.85041bbd.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080801221539.GA8617@mit.edu> <20080801152720.56dbff09.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Theodore Tso , Junio C Hamano , git@vger.kernel.org To: Andrew Morton X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Aug 02 00:51:40 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KP3TH-0005HF-BT for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Sat, 02 Aug 2008 00:51:39 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751425AbYHAWuh convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Aug 2008 18:50:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751320AbYHAWuh (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Aug 2008 18:50:37 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:58823 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751201AbYHAWug (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Aug 2008 18:50:36 -0400 Received: from imap1.linux-foundation.org (imap1.linux-foundation.org [140.211.169.55]) by smtp1.linux-foundation.org (8.14.2/8.13.5/Debian-3ubuntu1.1) with ESMTP id m71MnivM013990 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Fri, 1 Aug 2008 15:49:45 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by imap1.linux-foundation.org (8.13.5.20060308/8.13.5/Debian-3ubuntu1.1) with ESMTP id m71MnhTk007942; Fri, 1 Aug 2008 15:49:43 -0700 In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Alpine 1.10 (LFD 962 2008-03-14) X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.411 required=5 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.4-osdl_revision__1.47__ X-MIMEDefang-Filter: lf$Revision: 1.188 $ X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.63 on 140.211.169.13 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Fri, 1 Aug 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote: >=20 > S.=C3=87a=C4=9Flar Onur Btw, poor guy is _really_ screwed. He'd show up as "=3D?utf-8?q?S=3D2E=3DC3=3D87a=3DC4=3D9Flar?=3D Onur" which must really hurt. Can you not see how STUPID it would be to say that the name should be=20 shown as an email encoding requires it? Really. Just admit that you were wrong. The fact is, asking for rfc2822= =20 encoding in logs etc is a HORRIBLY HORRIBLY stupid thing to do. What you really want was just something you could cut-and-paste into yo= ur=20 mailer. Which actually means that the only special character is probabl= y=20 ",", and your claims of how bad the design was that it didn't leave the= =20 total mess that rfc2822 is was actually not true, and was based on simp= ly=20 not knowing how nasty the real world is... Quote frankly, If I had one of the Finnish special characters in my nam= e,=20 I'd piss on your grave if you suggested that. Try to guess what somethi= ng=20 like =3D?ISO-8859-15?Q?Linus_T=3DF6rnqvist?=3D is supposed to be. Linus