From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Convert non-ASCII letters to hexadecimal? vs control chars.
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 20:52:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3wrpbv0od.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: jwveibjbd7h.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org
Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA> writes:
>> I think the right fix for control characters below 32 is to convert
>> them to the ^X ASCII representation.
>
> I'm not sure I'd agree enough to make it a promptless default.
I think it might make sense for the bug reports, but I think that (in
general) there's no point in doing any conversion of anything. I mean,
the mail will be encoded with a proper transfer encoding when sending,
won't it?
Unless one of the sending methods used by emacsbugs doesn't encode
anything.
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-21 18:52 UTC|newest]
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[not found] ` <87fww040oi.fsf@jidanni.org>
2010-10-21 16:14 ` Convert non-ASCII letters to hexadecimal? vs control chars Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-10-21 17:56 ` bug#7256: " Eli Zaretskii
2010-10-21 18:42 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-10-21 18:52 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2010-10-21 20:32 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-10-21 21:26 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-10-22 3:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-10-22 7:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
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