From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Is there a way to "asciify" a string? Date: Thu, 31 May 2018 22:04:05 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87zi0llisj.fsf@mbork.pl> <20180527073645.GB17354@tuxteam.de> <87y3g5l1h0.fsf@mbork.pl> <20180531192348.22baa2917129486248557378@speakeasy.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1527818570 3946 195.159.176.226 (1 Jun 2018 02:02:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2018 02:02:50 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 01 04:02:46 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fOZOw-0000t5-FR for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Jun 2018 04:02:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47049 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fOZR1-0003Ha-T7 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 31 May 2018 22:04:55 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39607) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fOZQT-0003HM-7h for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 31 May 2018 22:04:21 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fOZQQ-0008A4-KE for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 31 May 2018 22:04:21 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=45470 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fOZQQ-00088z-Cd for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 31 May 2018 22:04:18 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fOZOC-0008Tr-Vx for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Jun 2018 04:02:00 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 13 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:PaKpVHb29uuo34ssWFKmGU0efz8= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:116935 Archived-At: > 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