On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 06:25:14PM +0200, Stefan Richter wrote:
> John Anthony Kazos Jr. wrote:
> > You can't post a patch to UTF-8 in plain text, because it isn't plain
> > text.
>
> Of course it is, you said so...
>
> > MTAs and MUAs mangle the hell out of them. Look back in the archives
> > for my postings. Once you've got something in UTF-8, -*THEN*- you can post
> > in plain inline text.
>
> ...yourself. Just send as
>
> Content-type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
>
> Of course a patch like that will usually contain several character sets,
> but that's no problem as long as the byte codes are preserved and we can
> easily see how the end result looks like. The important thing is that
> the submitter's and committer's MUAs do it right and reviewers' MUAs do
> it sort of right. Also, nobody cares if there is still some pre-WWI
> 7bit-only MTA operated in some lone desert town. And if some web
> archive of LKML isn't compatible to internet mail, then that's tough luck.
The problem is that the unconverted characters are always invalid UTF-8 [1],
and it's 100% correct for a MUA to convert these invalid UTF-8
characters to replacement characters - if a MUA claims to send valid
charset="utf-8", it is simply not allowed to preserve the byte codes.
> Stefan Richter
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Adrian
[1] except for some cases with two or more non 7bit ASCII
characters in a row
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