Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> writes: > Mail setups that do not understand MIME are antiquated to the point > that most email must be hard to deal with. Fine by me. > 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. Obviously, since I'm not able to interpret raw UTF8 sequences beyond U+007F in my head. You X-Face is surely to people without the right help -- as is my GPG signature. The difference being that these are add-ons, not important parts of the message itself. So what's your stand now? Do I need to get tools to understand UTF8 to be able to follow debian-policy or not? > And yes, my email do tend to have characters beyond plain ascii 7, > as the headers for my mails state. I haven't done an analysis, but actually I've seen few mails from you that contained non-ASCII characters in important positions. The referenced one was one of those few, so I took it as the reason to ask. > 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, In another mail you said you did. Anyway, s/pasting/writing/ > b) you would have to selectively excise and edit my email before > sticking it in (like, my signature would confuse apt, I would > think), Sure. My MUA is advanced enough to allow that. Your point was? > 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. If you read my mail, you'll certainly notice that I knew what you meant. I just pointed out that you gratuitously used an non-ASCII character instead of the (IMO more correct) ASCII equivalent. > (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'm going to run with this as a kind of "yes" answer to my "UTF8 mandatory" question, since you're obviously bent upon taking my writing as useless flamage, and therefore a straight answer is improbable. -- Robbe
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