From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266457AbUBRMfM (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Feb 2004 07:35:12 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266501AbUBRMfL (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Feb 2004 07:35:11 -0500 Received: from [212.28.208.94] ([212.28.208.94]:38159 "HELO dewire.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S266457AbUBRMfE (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Feb 2004 07:35:04 -0500 From: Robin Rosenberg To: Tomas Szepe Subject: Re: UTF-8 practically vs. theoretically in the VFS API Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 13:34:56 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.1 Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <04Feb13.163954est.41760@gpu.utcc.utoronto.ca> <200402181259.40840.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com> <20040218120558.GA13944@louise.pinerecords.com> In-Reply-To: <20040218120558.GA13944@louise.pinerecords.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200402181334.56096.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wednesday 18 February 2004 13.05, Tomas Szepe wrote: > On Feb-18 2004, Wed, 12:59 +0100 > Robin Rosenberg wrote: > > > On Wednesday 18 February 2004 12.49, Tomas Szepe wrote: > > > Would you _please_ read the lkml FAQ and stop posting e-mails with lines > > > longer than 80 characters? Thank you. > > > > As soon as someone asks nicely... I thought any decent mail client simply > > wrapped the lines. > > 1) Quite the contrary. Any _decent_ mail client will _not_ wrap the lines. > > 2) A mail client that will wrap the lines will make your posts look like this: > > > Having to put up with the existence of Windows day in and out is the reason I'm > still on > an eight-bit encoding. Sorry for not explaining the REAL problem, but only a > partial > problem. I need to support all kinds of clients on Windows with protocols that > convey no > character set info. With samba that's no problem. Having to put up with a Unix > world running > That's what happens when the sender wraps the lines at column 80 and your client wraps at 72 (or similar situation), just another reason not to wrap when sending and let the users client do whatever the user think is fine. In order not to wrap and destroy information I have the autowrap feature off when composing mail, becase wrapped and cut stack traces, cuts from log files etc are a pain. BTW The 80 character rule is only mention wrt to signatures. -- robin