Re: report on [bad] status of i18n of gnome apps - somebody should
- From: Alan Cox <alan redhat com>
- To: notzed ximian com (Not Zed)
- Cc: hvv hippo ru (Vlad Harchev), fejj ximian com (Jeffrey Stedfast), ettore ximian com (Ettore Perazzoli), gnome-hackers gnome org, gnome-i18n gnome org, gnome-devel-list gnome org, evolution-hackers helixcode com
- Subject: Re: report on [bad] status of i18n of gnome apps - somebody should
- Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 22:45:36 -0500 (EST)
> > displays underscores for chars > 127 in subject AFAIR, so please fix
> > this - that's the most fatal flaw so far that makes it unusable even if it's
> > used only for reading mails (i.e. if not caring about encodings the messages
> > are sent with Evo are in)!
>
> I'm sorry, but those mailers are totally broken, end of story.
Welcome to the real world. There are two conventions in use
#1 putting the type into the subject header
#2 assuming the message encoding
If you don't support these your mailer is junk. Quite possibly perfectly
gloriously RFC correct, but still junk
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