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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Is there a way to "asciify" a string?
Date: Thu, 31 May 2018 22:04:05 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv7enjz2li.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.help@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20180531192348.22baa2917129486248557378@speakeasy.net

> It's good advice, though treacherous.  If you use any encoding other
> than ASCII, you'll need to indicate the encoding used, and put up with
> recipients who don't know what "encoding" is

Yes, and this has been known for enough years (and slowly fixed
everywhere) that nowadays users *should* (and from what I can tell,
usually do) expect this to be handled properly.

It may still fail, of course, but this shouldn't be much more common
than the occurrence of any other bug.


        Stefan




  reply	other threads:[~2018-06-01  2:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-05-27  6:22 Is there a way to "asciify" a string? Marcin Borkowski
2018-05-27  7:36 ` tomas
2018-05-27 12:36   ` Marcin Borkowski
2018-05-27 12:52     ` Teemu Likonen
2018-05-27 16:07       ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-05-27 16:59         ` Teemu Likonen
2018-05-28  5:24           ` Tak Kunihiro
2018-05-30 10:12           ` Marcin Borkowski
2018-05-30 17:05             ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-05-30 19:38               ` Marcin Borkowski
2018-05-27 20:00         ` tomas
2018-05-28 18:27           ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-05-29  6:37             ` tomas
2018-05-27 13:04     ` Yuri Khan
2018-05-30 10:14       ` Marcin Borkowski
2018-05-30 11:51         ` Yuri Khan
2018-05-30 15:04           ` Marcin Borkowski
2018-05-31  2:03       ` John Mastro
2018-06-02 18:07         ` Marcin Borkowski
2018-06-02 18:48           ` tomas
2018-06-07 17:16             ` Marcin Borkowski
2018-06-02 22:33           ` Drew Adams
2018-06-07 17:15             ` Marcin Borkowski
2018-06-02 18:12         ` Marcin Borkowski
2018-05-27 19:53     ` tomas
2018-05-28  8:15     ` Philipp Stephani
2018-05-28 10:28       ` Marcin Borkowski
2018-05-28 10:39         ` tomas
2018-05-28 15:30           ` Yuri Khan
2018-05-28 16:02             ` tomas
2018-05-30 10:12           ` Marcin Borkowski
2018-05-31 14:23     ` Stefan Monnier
2018-05-31 15:08       ` S. Champailler
2018-05-31 22:52         ` Richard Wordingham
2018-05-31 15:42       ` Marcin Borkowski
2018-05-31 15:53         ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-05-31 16:20           ` Yuri Khan
2018-05-31 19:03           ` Stefan Monnier
     [not found]       ` <mailman.871.1527781438.1292.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-05-31 23:23         ` James K. Lowden
2018-06-01  2:04           ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2018-06-01  7:02           ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-05-27 14:55 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2018-05-27 16:00 ` Eli Zaretskii

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