Re: Bug#132767: acknowledged by developer (Reviewing policy bugs)
>>"Robbe" == Robert Bihlmeyer <robbe@orcus.priv.at> writes:
>> I see. Anything your parochial. limited, MUA can't render is
>> gibberish.
Robbe> Obviously, since I'm not able to interpret raw UTF8 sequences beyond
Robbe> U+007F in my head. You X-Face is surely to people without the right
Robbe> help -- as is my GPG signature. The difference being that these are
Robbe> add-ons, not important parts of the message itself.
MIME encoded parts are integral parts of email -- and contain
content; and fall in the same category.
Robbe> So what's your stand now? Do I need to get tools to understand UTF8 to
Robbe> be able to follow debian-policy or not?
I really think you ought ot be able to reach that
determination on your own.
>> And yes, my email do tend to have characters beyond plain ascii 7,
>> as the headers for my mails state.
Robbe> I haven't done an analysis, but actually I've seen few mails
Robbe> from you that contained non-ASCII characters in important
Robbe> positions. The referenced one was one of those few, so I took
Robbe> it as the reason to ask.
What do you want me to say? My locale is en_US.UTF-8. My MUA
understands and properly encode characters I use under that
locale. As more and more tools become unicode aware, more and more
people shall switch. When is the right time for you to switch over?
Depends on you, dunnit? I have already decided to go over to UTF-8.
Robbe> I'm going to run with this as a kind of "yes" answer to my "UTF8
Robbe> mandatory" question, since you're obviously bent upon taking my
Robbe> writing as useless flamage, and therefore a straight answer is
Robbe> improbable.
Calling things shite and gibberish is likely to evoke those
kinds of responses to stimuli, yes.
manoj
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