Re: Aging Dependencies?

On Wed, 18 Apr 2012 18:13:04 -0400, Ken Hornstein said:

> Yeah, but I'm still trying to figure out what turned a particular single-byte
> ISO-8859 character character into a 2-byte UTF-8 sequence.  It wasn't
> nmh; was it Tcl?

I'm pretty sure it's Tcl code inside exmh, probably in mime.tcl  though I admit
not fully understanding yet how it went astray.

> In the case you describe below, it seems like people should be "encouraged"
> to use a Unicode font and convert those headers to UTF-8 internally
> irregardless of the user's locale.

It's certainly tempting to make the code "encourage" it :)

The biggest problem is that I run Fedora Rawhide on the laptop where I
use exmh and as a result, I've usually got recent versions of everything.
But I'm sure we have exmh users on userspace old enough that their
utf-8 support is a tad lacking.

> Speaking of mojibake ... the part of the message where you quoted
> me was interesting.  The character set was iso-8859-1, the encoding
> was quoted-printable.  Unicode codepoints in my message that are
> valid in ISO-8859 such as U+00E4 were properly encoded using
> quoted-printable.  But Unicode codepoints that were NOT valid in
> iso-8859-1 (U+201C, U+201D, U+FFFD) were simply spit out as UTF-8
> bytes and NOT encoded properly via quoted-printable (which as I
> read it is a violation of RFC 2045).  I don't know if that's how
> the email left your SMTP server..

Well, the GPG signature was still valid, so it must have been already dorked
when it left my laptop. ;)

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