Re: lists.debian.org de-localization (Re: automatically-generated ISO-8859-1 characters in mulbibyte webpages)
On Jan 05, Tomohiro KUBOTA <debian@tmail.plala.or.jp> wrote:
>It would be nice if we can convert raw 8bit mail headers (though it is
>illegal; it sometimes happens and may cause breaking the lists.debian.org
>pages) to SGML entities by assuming they are ISO-8859-1. Since this may
>annoy Russian (and other non-ISO-8859-1) people who happen to use MUAs
>which generates illegal mail headers with 8bit characters without charset
>specification, I'd like to hear from people from various countries.
It would be *MUCH* better to just refuse these messages. Most of them
are spam anyway.
At least in my country (and in all western europe, I think) raw latin-1
characters in headers are never found outside of non-spam messages.
/^Subject: .*[^[:print:]]{8}/ REJECT Your mailer is not RFC 2047 compliant
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ciao,
Marco
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