Re: The translator credits

[Karl Eichwalder <ke suse de>]

Pablo Saratxaga <pablo mandrakesoft com> writes:

> That is because the name is another encoding; but do you really thing
> that *everybody* (and not only people like you requesting info from a
> file in another language and another encoding) having an output like
> 'Jo=?qp?iso-8859-1?=e3?=o' is better ?

Yes -- since the other is wrong (or at least misleading).  I like to
play safe.

But all in all that's a minor issue; if the majority agreed to use 8bit
characters here, okay, I'll not make a "Zwergenaufstand" ;)

Hopefully, one day we'll use SGML (XML) files for the message strings
and all problems will vanish...

> Quoted-printable and base64 are bad;

That's not the question here.

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