Re: short assumed (was: alternates (was: What should go into 1.5.7?))
On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 12:42:30PM +0100, Alain Bench wrote:
> The fix for Vincent *seems* nearly OK: Whatever setting, C case is
> converted at best, and unconvertables are correctly ?-masked. But... Not
> in $assumed_charset=us-ascii default setting: A and B are correctly
> masked, C is pass-thru. Ideally C should be masked as A and B.
>
> And there probably should be a legacy mode where A is masked, and B
> and C are pass-thru. Reintroduce $strict_mime bolean? No: Better when
> $assumed_charset is unset or has an empty component. And probably legacy
> mode should be default.
>
> The meaning of "us-ascii" should be "us-ascii", not a special case
> trigger. Evil in-band signalling and such.
Thank you for the thorough audit.
If you are in a hurry, please see
http://www.momonga-linux.org/~tamo/patch-1.5.7.tt+tamo.short_assumed_file_charset.2
I haven't tried it out.
I'll do it tomorrow, because I am drunk tonight.
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tamo