Date: Thu, 19 Dec 1996 21:05:40 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Subject: Re: 8-bit characters in gecos field Message-ID: <199612192005.VAA00914@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <Mutt.19961219072900.roberto@keltia.freenix.fr> from Ollivier Robert at "Dec 19, 96 07:29:00 am"
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As Ollivier Robert wrote: > According to David Nugent: > > Perhaps our ports can be patched to do q-p translation if they > > don't already? Most imap2bis servers support MIME in any case. > > Automatic conversion is not always a good idea. Since mail headers are by definition restricted to 7 bit, it's the best one could do. (Remember, we were only speaking about the GECOS name that appears in a mail header.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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