From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: smtpmail and ~/.authinfo
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2011 14:22:36 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vcsf1537.fsf@lifelogs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m3vcsf18p1.fsf@stories.gnus.org
On Mon, 26 Sep 2011 20:04:42 +0200 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> wrote:
LMI> Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:
>> I think authinfo/netrc files should be portable and support Unicode in a
>> way that enables other (older or new!) software to use them too. IMHO
>> enforcing UTF-8 encoding is the best way to achieve that.
LMI> That's not realistic, I think.
...
LMI> So there isn't any wiggle room here. The user has to be able to store a
LMI> random sequence of bytes into the .authinfo file to be able to contact
LMI> their servers -- if they have been careless enough to create a non-ASCII
LMI> user name or password.
I agree 100%. I'm saying we should save the netrc/authinfo file in the
UTF-8 coding system instead of raw-text so Unicode characters in there
are usable by other programs too. Forget the `auth-source-search'
callers, they won't know or care. There will be no difference to their
usage or the data they get.
I believe random bytes can be encoded just fine by UTF-8. If they are
read by a program that doesn't know UTF-8 that's a problem, but IMO we
can live with it and it's entirely theoretical.
Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-26 19:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-08-20 10:26 smtpmail and ~/.authinfo Eli Zaretskii
2011-08-21 4:39 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-08-21 6:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-08-21 19:25 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-08-21 19:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-08-21 20:17 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-08-22 5:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-09-10 19:01 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-09-25 12:33 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-09-25 12:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-09-25 13:21 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-09-25 17:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-09-26 14:41 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-09-26 16:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-09-26 16:53 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-09-26 17:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-09-26 17:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-09-26 17:31 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-09-26 17:00 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-09-26 17:28 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-09-26 21:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-09-26 18:04 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-09-26 19:22 ` Ted Zlatanov [this message]
2011-09-26 19:30 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-09-26 19:48 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-09-26 21:31 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-09-26 21:43 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-09-26 21:54 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-09-27 4:07 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-09-27 6:11 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-09-27 10:29 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-09-27 12:33 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-09-27 20:15 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-09-28 1:41 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-09-28 8:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-09-26 21:55 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-09-27 2:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-09-27 10:38 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-09-27 11:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-09-27 12:55 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-09-27 14:02 ` Jason Rumney
2011-09-26 19:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-09-26 19:40 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-09-27 2:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-09-27 13:54 ` Jason Rumney
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