Re: GCC

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From: Peter Pentchev
Subject: Re: GCC
Date: 13:20 on 24 Aug 2004
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On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 06:59:25AM -0500, Peter da Silva wrote:
> > I'm not sure what exactly you are implying here - or which particular
> > mail client / message is your hate targeted at.
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> Two categories of clients, I guess. First, all the spawn-of-redmond
> ones that used Windows-1251 instead of ISO-8859.5.

Yes, it looks like we are in violent agreement here.  Unfortunately, as
I said before, for the present we will have to live with this :(

> Second, Mutt, for not being able to distinguish between messages that
> only use code points below 128 and those that have to be explicitly
> tagged with a charset,

Yeah, what I said about the minimal charset detector :(
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> even if it can't use UTF-8.

Well, Mutt itself can, but some of the people that I keep in touch with
still use mail readers that can't.  And yes, I know that the Right
Thing(tm) would be to drag them kicking and screaming into the Century
of the Fruitbat, but still...

> Oh, and for spawn-of-redmond for doing such a crappy job of Unicode
> support that Windows apps find it easier not to bother.

I can second that, too - the whole *A/*W() mess made me not bother in
the past years when I had to deal with this, too.

G'luck,
Peter

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