Re: Bug#132767: acknowledged by developer (Reviewing policy bugs)
Hi,
*Sigh*. I guess any initiative without a flame war would be
un-debian. Who am I, then, to flaunt tradition?
>>"Robbe" == Robert Bihlmeyer <robbe@orcus.priv.at> writes:
Robbe> Obviously MIME is mandatory for participation in policy
Robbe> process I infer from your "Fix your MUA" comment.
It is required only if you think that one needs to use modern,
standards compliant, mail transfer protocol (unless I am mistaken
MIME is an accepted PROPOSED STANDARD RFC) in this day and age. Mail
setups that do not understand MIME are antiquated to the point that
most email must be hard to deal with.
Robbe> But you were using characters outside ASCII as well, so one
Robbe> needs tools to turn them from UTF8 gibberish into something
Robbe> readable.
I see. Anything your parochial. limited, MUA can't render is
gibberish. (See how words can be slanted with all kinds of baggage
the other way too?). And yes, my email do tend to have characters
beyond plain ascii 7, as the headers for my mails state.
>> And, pray tell, why exactly is it incorrect?
Robbe> One can't use this unicode hyphen and have getopt understand
Robbe> it. You were pasting a commandline that didn't work. Incorrect
Robbe> enough for you?
A) I was not pasting a command line, b) you would have to
selectively excise and edit my email before sticking it in (like, my
signature would confuse apt, I would think), and c) it was written to
address people who could exercise a modicum of common sense, really.
I am sorry if it was misadressed in your case.
(I shall not use the fact that I was pasting the output of
man, and that the utf-8 was not delibrate, as an argument, since I
make no bones about not sticking to ascii in my emails)
>> I see a hyphen.
Robbe> Hyphen != Hyphen-Minus although they probably look exactly or
Robbe> nearly exactly alike.
You know, I recognize what i need to do when I am presented
with a SINGLE LEFT QUOTATION MARK(‘) and thet I need to actually type '
-- which is not really a SINGLE LEFT QUOTATION MARK ‘. And so on
for hyphens, dashes, HYPHEN-MINUS's, ....
Of course, it is probably far more fun to contribute to flame
wars rather than help fix policy, so please continue to have at
it. Please pardon me if I happen to lack the time to add to your
entertainment further. I hope I have fulfilled my obligations by
dutifully contributing to this pointless exercise in anal retentive
flammage.
Have a nice day or oops, am I not supposed to say that in a
flame?
manoj
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