[Wikitech-l] Encoding subject encoding bike shed

2013-03-21 Thread Mark A. Hershberger
On 03/21/2013 11:45 AM, Luke Welling WMF wrote:
 On the email title sidetrack, it should not create a 4th way.

The pedant in me says there are at least two more ways -- different
capitalization for UTF-8.  But your subject line shows another way.

My client displays all of the subjects the same.

Jasper,
Mine:  =?utf-8?q?Gerrit_Wars=E2=84=A2=3A_a_strategy-guide?=
Yours: =?windows-1252?q?Gerrit_Wars=99=3A_a_strategy-guide?=
MZ's:  Gerrit =?UTF-8?B?V2Fyc+KEog==?=: a strategy-guide
Ori:   Gerrit =?utf-8?Q?Wars=E2=84=A2=3A_?=a strategy-guide

Maybe mailman doesn't understand when the encoding doesn't start at the
first character since those are the ones that don't display correctly.

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Re: [Wikitech-l] Encoding subject encoding bike shed

2013-03-21 Thread Luke Welling WMF
Heh, if clients randomly change character sets than I guess there are a
very large number of possible values.

Given that RFC2047 came out in 1996 it's reasonable that people use
non-ascii characters in titles given that the means to do it in a
compatible way has been around for 17 years.

Luke


On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 12:04 PM, Mark A. Hershberger m...@everybody.orgwrote:

 On 03/21/2013 11:45 AM, Luke Welling WMF wrote:
  On the email title sidetrack, it should not create a 4th way.

 The pedant in me says there are at least two more ways -- different
 capitalization for UTF-8.  But your subject line shows another way.

 My client displays all of the subjects the same.

 Jasper,
 Mine:  =?utf-8?q?Gerrit_Wars=E2=84=A2=3A_a_strategy-guide?=
 Yours: =?windows-1252?q?Gerrit_Wars=99=3A_a_strategy-guide?=
 MZ's:  Gerrit =?UTF-8?B?V2Fyc+KEog==?=: a strategy-guide
 Ori:   Gerrit =?utf-8?Q?Wars=E2=84=A2=3A_?=a strategy-guide

 Maybe mailman doesn't understand when the encoding doesn't start at the
 first character since those are the ones that don't display correctly.

 --
 http://hexmode.com/

 [We are] immortal ... because [we have] a soul, a spirit capable of
compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
 -- William Faulker, Nobel Prize acceptance speech

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