From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [yazicivo@ttnet.net.tr: Locale Dependent Downcasing in smtpmail] Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2007 13:39:15 -0400 Message-ID: <87tzw0j8os.fsf@stupidchicken.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1175449182 31384 80.91.229.12 (1 Apr 2007 17:39:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2007 17:39:42 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org, Volkan YAZICI Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Apr 01 19:39:35 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HY41c-0005sj-VI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 01 Apr 2007 19:39:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HY44Z-0004nJ-2k for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 01 Apr 2007 13:42:35 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HY44V-0004ms-MI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 01 Apr 2007 13:42:31 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HY44U-0004mY-R5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 01 Apr 2007 13:42:30 -0400 Original-Received: from south-station-annex.mit.edu ([18.72.1.2]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HY41X-0002md-W5; Sun, 01 Apr 2007 13:39:28 -0400 Original-Received: from central-city-carrier-station.mit.edu (CENTRAL-CITY-CARRIER-STATION.MIT.EDU [18.7.7.72]) by south-station-annex.mit.edu (8.13.6/8.9.2) with ESMTP id l31HdQsv008636; Sun, 1 Apr 2007 13:39:26 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from outgoing-legacy.mit.edu (OUTGOING-LEGACY.MIT.EDU [18.7.22.104]) by central-city-carrier-station.mit.edu (8.13.6/8.9.2) with ESMTP id l31HdGYi007386; Sun, 1 Apr 2007 13:39:16 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from localhost ([18.19.7.211]) ) by outgoing-legacy.mit.edu (8.13.6/8.12.4) with ESMTP id l31HdFh4018009; Sun, 1 Apr 2007 13:39:15 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from cyd by localhost with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1HY41L-0002RU-00; Sun, 01 Apr 2007 13:39:15 -0400 In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Sat\, 31 Mar 2007 16\:43\:23 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.96 (gnu/linux) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.42 X-Spam-Score: -2.066 X-detected-kernel: Solaris 9.1 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:68891 Archived-At: > smtpmail tries to downcase the strings using DOWNCASE function during > the SMTP communication. But this leads to some problems in some > locales. I spotted that problem when I tried to launch emacs with > LC_CTYPE=tr_TR locale. In Turkish, downcased I is a dotless i. > Therefore, while it tries to downcase some AUTH mechanisms (in > smtpmail-via-smtp function), PLAIN and LOGIN turns into pla?n and > log?n. And this causes (smtpmail-intersection smtpmail-auth-supported > mechs) to return nil in smtpmail-try-auth-methods function. > > IMHO, smtpmail-via-smtp function should switch to ASCII locale (if > that's possible) before calling DOWNCASE. I've installed a fix for this.