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From: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Cc: "John Anthony Kazos Jr." <jakj@j-a-k-j.com>,
	mgarski@post.pl, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Convert files to UTF-8 and some cleanups
Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 19:17:34 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <464899AE.9070206@s5r6.in-berlin.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070514164608.GS7984@stusta.de>

Adrian Bunk wrote:
> 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.
...
> [1] except for some cases with two or more non 7bit ASCII 
>     characters in a row

OK, I missed that, sorry.  Then

	Content-type: text/plain; charset="unknown-8bit"

can be put to good use.
But as I said, at least a diffstat would be nice.
-- 
Stefan Richter
-=====-=-=== -=-= -===-
http://arcgraph.de/sr/

  reply	other threads:[~2007-05-14 17:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-13 23:54 Marcin Garski
2007-05-14  0:08 ` Marcin Garski
2007-05-14 14:14   ` Stefan Richter
2007-05-14 15:28     ` John Anthony Kazos Jr.
2007-05-14 16:25       ` Stefan Richter
2007-05-14 16:41         ` Stefan Richter
2007-05-14 16:46         ` Adrian Bunk
2007-05-14 17:17           ` Stefan Richter [this message]
2007-05-14 17:48     ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-05-14 18:06       ` Stefan Richter
2007-05-14 20:10         ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-05-14 20:25           ` Adrian Bunk
2007-05-14 20:36             ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-05-14 20:41               ` Adrian Bunk
2007-05-14 21:14                 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-05-14 22:20                   ` Stefan Richter
2007-05-15  8:05                     ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-05-15 16:23                   ` [PATCH] Pekka Pietikainen goes UTF-8 Pekka Pietikainen
2007-05-16  6:05                     ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-16  6:55                       ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-05-16 15:11                         ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-16 16:38                       ` [PATCH] Pekka Pietikainen goes UTF-8 (try #2) Pekka Pietikainen
2007-05-16 17:16                         ` Pekka Pietikainen
2007-05-16 17:53                         ` Björn Steinbrink

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