From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Convert non-ASCII letters to hexadecimal? vs control chars. Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 16:32:42 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87fww040oi.fsf@jidanni.org> <83tykf8m6i.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1287693611 3133 80.91.229.12 (21 Oct 2010 20:40:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 20:40:11 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 21 22:40:08 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P91vd-0006KK-3a for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Oct 2010 22:40:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41539 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P91oj-0005LY-Il for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Oct 2010 16:32:53 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=42218 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P91oc-0005L6-OA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Oct 2010 16:32:47 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1P91oa-000573-V7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Oct 2010 16:32:45 -0400 Original-Received: from chene.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.20]:42258) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1P91oa-00056m-OZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Oct 2010 16:32:44 -0400 Original-Received: from faina.iro.umontreal.ca (lechon.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.242]) by chene.dit.umontreal.ca (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id o9LKWgwx028883; Thu, 21 Oct 2010 16:32:42 -0400 Original-Received: by faina.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 7A0D5B461D; Thu, 21 Oct 2010 16:32:42 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "Thu, 21 Oct 2010 20:52:02 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-NAI-Spam-Score: 0 X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 1 Rules triggered RV3655=0 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:131956 Archived-At: >>> 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? Yes. And if not, then it's a separate problem. Stefan