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Re: short assumed (was: alternates (was: What should go into 1.5.7?))



    [CC welcome, MFT set]

 On Thursday, February 3, 2005 at 12:29:44 AM +0900, Tamotsu Takahashi wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 01:03:42AM +0100, Alain Bench wrote:
    [patch-1.5.7.tt+tamo.short_assumed_file_charset.3]
>> Quick check gives legacy perfect, Vincent mode perfect, my everyday
>> settings OK. Bravo, well done. Still have to study masking on UTF-8:
>> Seems to be a "?" or U+FFFD masking char minor inconsistency.
> not in my code but in mutt_convert_string().
> - if (mutt_is_utf8 (to))
> -   outrepl = "\357\277\275";
> Could anyone explain what "\357\277\275" is?

    The UTF-8 three bytes representation of U+FFFD character (�):

| <UFFFD>       /xef/xbf/xbd    REPLACEMENT CHARACTER


> Is it really necessary here?

    No. But it may seem logical to use it to replace unconvertables,
where available, in all sorts of Unicode, in GB18030... Discussable.


| Forwarding. I hope this is just a delay, but I haven't received this
| message so far.

    Thanks. No delay, just blackhole. My preceding mail was also
impacted: You saw it because I <bounce>d it to you after a day. And
another mail in another thread was also blackholed. Changing MFT.


Bye!    Alain.
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