Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 20:47:57 +0300 (MSK) From: =?KOI8-R?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7=2C_Andrey_Chernov?= <ache@nagual.ru> To: David Nugent <davidn@freefall.freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.ORG Subject: Re: 8-bit characters in gecos field Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.961218204308.894B-100000@nagual.ru> In-Reply-To: <199612181348.FAA06937@freefall.freebsd.org>
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On Thu, 19 Dec 1996, David Nugent wrote: > I've been entertaining the idea of having pw(8) allow 8-bit > characters in the passwd GECOS field. It was suggested earlier > that this might cause problems in email, but as far as I can > determine, sendmail handles this correctly by conversion to > quoted-printable. Other MIME mailers seem to do much the same > thing (ie. zmailer 2.99.x). Whether or not this is readable > on the receiving system depends of course on the character-set > header, but this becomes more an issue to do with user/system > configuration. There is no break as I see, but no sense too, because it is unclear what character set you use for names. I.e. when finger sends you some 8bit codes like this: Андрей Чернов, what do you do with them? -- Andrey A. Chernov <ache@nagual.ru> http://www.nagual.ru/~ache/
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