From: "Philip Prindeville" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
are fired... And you might have a specific set of rules for a list like
alsa-devel (the 'L' in ALSA is for Linux, so it might be reasonable
to assume that no one will be posting with charset='windows-1252'...
it's also an English language list, so having 'ok_languages en' would
be reasonable as well).
This would be a pretty bad idea. I develop Linux stuff and on linux, but my
mail system is either OE or Outlook on Windows boxen. I can't be the only
one.
Loren
Well, I don't know.
The RFC's are pretty clear that western European languages are encoded
as USASCII => ISO-8859-1 => UTF-8 in that order, no exceptions.
Any UA breaking this (even, or perhaps especially if it's MS, since they're
big enough to have adequate personnel and resources to know better) should
be spanked.
Otherwise, it won't get fixed.
As I remember, setting the default codepage in Windows to be ISO-8859-1
system-wide isn't that hard.
-Philip
Loren has a good point, Phillip. I happen to use Outlook Express because
I make my income, you know - what you use to eat and keep a roof over
your head, off software developed for Windows that for one reason or
another cannot be done on Linux. I telecommute. I also, if you dig deep
enough, have a Linux Kernel contribution to the 2.6 kernel tree.
It happens that I am an anti-HTML and anti-base64 bigot so I don't have
that charset issue to deal with. But if I did switch over to base 64
with character level formatting (for any reason other than posting an
accurate but unreadable white on white response to an HTML posting) I
might face that charset issue.
Please note something particularly important here, Philip. I have an
issue with RFC bigots. RFCs are *NOT* standards. They are Requests For
Comments, nothing more. When they become STANDARDS it is FAR more
critical to deal with them correctly. (If you think this particular
issue is all that critical then get in there and help make the RFC
into a standard.)
{^_^} Joanne being pissy this morning. (Something about eye burn
from allergies does that to me.)
