On Sunday 27 February 2011, Doug Barton wrote: > On 02/27/2011 02:04, Ingo Klöcker wrote: > > On Saturday, February 26, 2011, MFPA wrote: > >> Hi > >> > >> > >> On Friday 25 February 2011 at 1:45:03 AM, in > >> > >> <mid:87lj14x4yo....@servo.finestructure.net>, Jameson Rollins wrote: > >>> Yikes! I thought we were almost done killing inline > >>> signatures! Don't revive it now! > >>> > >>> If PGP/MIME is broken on android, we need to get them > >>> to fix it, not go backwards to inline pgp. > >> > >> Using inline PGP signatures means using the simpler and more > >> reliable of the two solutions. The fact that its specification > >> was defined earlier does not mean using inline signatures is a > >> step backwards; PGP/MIME is a complement to pgp inline, not a > >> replacement. > > > > The major problem I see with using cleartext signatures in email is > > the lack for support of non-ASCII text (or, more precisely, > > character encoding). > > Can you provide examples that do not work when both the mail > client(s) and gnupg are properly configured to use UTF-8?
No, sorry. I haven't been using inline PGP signatures for ages and neither do most of the people I exchange emails with. Therefore I cannot provide real world examples. Back when I was still using inline PGP signatures I regularly got replies with a full quote of my inline-signed message where the signature on the quoted message was broken. You might say that it's not relevant because it's just a quote. But I say it is very relevant if such a reply is forwarded to a third party. And also if it isn't forwarded a bad signature is still highly irritating (at least to me). Of course, my experience is from a time when UTF-8 wasn't used in email. But do the standard mail clients (Outlook, GMail, Thunderbird) really default to UTF-8 nowadays? Expecting people to properly configure their mail clients is an unrealistic dream. Regards, Ingo
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