From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Dec 18 10:14:26 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id KAA19957 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 18 Dec 1996 10:14:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from sequent.kiae.su (sequent.kiae.su [193.125.152.6]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id KAA19947 for ; Wed, 18 Dec 1996 10:14:24 -0800 (PST) Received: by sequent.kiae.su id AA26907 (5.65.kiae-2 ); Wed, 18 Dec 1996 21:49:56 +0400 Received: by sequent.KIAE.su (UUMAIL/2.0); Wed, 18 Dec 96 21:49:50 +0400 Received: from localhost (nagual.ru [127.0.0.1]) by nagual.ru (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id UAA00925; Wed, 18 Dec 1996 20:47:58 +0300 (MSK) 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?= To: David Nugent Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.ORG Subject: Re: 8-bit characters in gecos field In-Reply-To: <199612181348.FAA06937@freefall.freebsd.org> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=KOI8-R Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 http://www.nagual.ru/~ache/