Re: patch: \201 when cache (was: bug: \201 in summary buffer)

[Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr>]

François Pinard <pinard@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> Allowed or not, such characters often occur in practice.  I've been told
> that some countries consider normal and very practical, despite standards
> may say, to just let 8-bit clean transport of email, and then assume their
> national charset.  I quite understand such reasons, and for email which
> is not internationally aimed, encoding headers is just unneeded complexity.
> 
> In my personal case, I much prefer international-aware headers.  But we
> should not be utterly dogmatic for others, and be prepared to cope with
> 8-bit characters in headers, whatever standards may say.

Being from such a country, I (for once) fully agree with everything
Francois said.

Speaking of "national charsets", we are still waging a battle to make
iso-8859-2 the standardly used charset, instead of the Windows "code
page 1250".