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From: Jesper Harder <harder@ifa.au.dk>
Cc: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Possible problem with Gnus
Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 17:48:23 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m31xlpve7s.fsf@defun.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3n04d3f4i.fsf@multivac.cwru.edu> (Paul Jarc's message of "Wed, 12 May 2004 10:15:51 -0400")

prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) writes:

> ISTR some systems' mailcap files had quotes around %s, and some
> don't.  I don't know whether that's settled down by now, but if it's
> still the case, 

The mailcap standard (RFC 1524) is clear: mailcap files shouldn't have
quotes -- which is why Gnus does the quoting, as you note.

I think you're right, though, that a few systems (Debian, AFAIK) for
unfathomable reasons flatly refuse to follow the standard and ship
broken mailcap files.

-- 
Jesper Harder                                <http://purl.org/harder/>

  reply	other threads:[~2004-05-12 15:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-05-09 23:07 Gnus for next release Miles Bader
2004-05-09 23:19 ` John Wiegley
2004-05-09 23:29 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-05-09 23:54   ` Miles Bader
2004-05-10  7:34     ` Frank Schmitt
2004-05-10  8:31 ` David Kastrup
2004-05-10 10:04   ` Reiner Steib
2004-05-11 12:22     ` Possible problem with Gnus Richard Stallman
2004-05-11 12:40       ` David Kastrup
2004-05-12 19:40         ` Richard Stallman
2004-05-11 13:48       ` Stefan Monnier
2004-05-11 16:07       ` Reiner Steib
2004-05-11 16:31         ` Paul Jarc
2004-05-12  9:59           ` Reiner Steib
2004-05-12 14:15             ` Paul Jarc
2004-05-12 15:48               ` Jesper Harder [this message]
2004-05-12 16:39               ` Reiner Steib
2004-05-12 15:36             ` Jesper Harder
2004-05-11 17:51         ` Stefan Monnier
2004-05-12  9:59           ` Reiner Steib
2004-05-12 10:34             ` David Kastrup
2004-05-13 15:45               ` Richard Stallman
2004-05-13 17:25                 ` David Kastrup
2004-05-13 17:59                   ` Stefan Monnier
2004-05-13 19:07                     ` David Kastrup
2004-05-14 21:01                   ` Richard Stallman
2004-05-14 21:18                     ` David Kastrup
2004-05-15 18:33                       ` Richard Stallman
2004-05-23  3:46                         ` Andy Tai
2004-05-23  3:48                         ` Andy Tai
2004-05-10 17:54 ` Gnus for next release Richard Stallman
2004-05-10 18:23   ` David Kastrup

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