Re: [chat] Re: [SLUG] Head & Rotor VE 08/23

[Peter Hardy <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2002-08-23 at 15:30, Jon Biddell wrote:
> >Considering ISO-8859-1 and us-ascii are the only two character sets we
> >*want* to allow, well, there goes that idea.
> 
> aqt the risk of being pedantic, why ISO-8859-1 ???  Why not block 
> everything except us-ascii ??

$ cd ~/Maildir/slug/cur
(peter@fizgig)(cur)(881)
$ ls | wc -l
    720
(peter@fizgig)(cur)(882)
$ grep -il iso-8859-1 * | wc -l
    115

I know that evolution prefers to use the ISO codes.  There seems to be a
significant number of other MUAs that do too.

> >And yes, I'm mildly horrified that I hadn't added it to the filters
> >earlier.
> 
> I'm not complaining, just asking the question - people seem to have taken 
> it into their heads that I'm some sort of overbearing ogre - I assure you 
> Dazza looks more like Shrek that I......:-)

That was nothing to do with my personal opinion.  Could have sworn I'd
already picked up on that one, and I'm genuinely annoyed that I hadn't.
>:-/

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