Re: charset ANSI_x3.4-1968, et al

[Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org>]

Karl Chen <quarl@cs.berkeley.edu> writes:

>>>>>> On 2007-03-18 12:54 PDT, Simon Josefsson writes:
>
>     Simon> RFC 1345 is not standards-track, but the IANA registry
>     Simon> is used by the standards-track MIME.
>
> Good point about standards-track-ness.  But, regardless of whether
> it's officially "okay", I would recommend /accepting/ (not
> sending) the ANSI_x3.4-1968 string: "Be liberal in what you
> accept, conservative in what you send."  There are already
> implementations "in the wild" sending it (perhaps incorrectly, but
> still, it's out there) -- Fedora, Debian, and presumably their
> derivatives.

Yes, I agree.

>     >> [1] This is now happening on multiple systems (which are
>     >> all Debian).  cron appears to be using the default locale
>     >> name.  On Linux, you can get the string ANSI_x3.4-1968 if
>     >> you run "LC_CTYPE=C locale charmap".
>
>     Simon> I think this should be reported as a bug.
>
> Yup, on the "conservative in what you send" side of it, I also
> sent them patch after I emailed ding@.
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=415302

Thanks!

/Simon