Dear ezmlm,
(I don't quite know how this message is going to make it through, due to the very
substance of the message).
I have been wondering why in the dev-digest emails, the names of some unfortunate
contributors always appear mangled. I am talking e.g. of our friend Rüdiger Plüm
(and any other name containing non-us-ascii or non-iso-8859-1 characters).
It seems that the deep-down reason is something amiss in the email software which composes
these messages. (Yes, that's probably you, ezmlm).
Below the line below, are the saved-to-disk headers and beginning of one of the latest
emails received from the dev-digest list.
This is a multipart message, and the first part indicates a character set of
"us-ascii".
But that appears to be false, because as it arrives, Rüdiger's name (and others) are
obviously Unicode, UTF-8 encoded.
Thus the unsuspecting and RFC-respecting email client program, displays his name as if it
was us-ascii, and it comes out as "81372 by: Plüm, Rüdiger, Vodafone Group".
(And I would bet that Rüdiger added this Vodafone Group qualifier, in frustration at never
seeing his name printed right).
For a community like Apache open to many esteemed international contributors and
distributing software used across the whole world, it is somewhat embarassing that it
cannot spell contributors' names correctly in broadcast emails.
Best regards
(name witheld, as it also contains some of the to-be-mangled characters)
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dev Digest 15 Sep 2014 12:30:04 -0000 Issue 4029
Topics (messages 81365 through 81374)
Systemd support in 2.4
81365 by: Martynas Bendorius
81366 by: Reindl Harald
81367 by: Martynas Bendorius
81370 by: Jan Kaluža
81371 by: Jan Kaluža
Re: [Patch] Async write completion for the full connection filter stack
81368 by: Yann Ylavic
81369 by: Yann Ylavic
81372 by: Plüm, Rüdiger, Vodafone Group
81373 by: Graham Leggett
81374 by: Graham Leggett
