On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 15:39, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
Alan Cox <alan(a)redhat.com>:
> RFC822 is problematic because \n and ":" can occur as part of multibyte
> symbols so dumb tools make dumb errors. It works for email only because
> SMTP uses some brain damaged "so dont do that" rules.
Not a problem. I'll just specify that the input is expected to be UTF-8 and
screw all that multibyte crap. World's going that direction anyway.
ugh - a lot of data in rpms is not utf-8 happy. Often in latin-1 or
beyond that in the encoding.
You might find that mandating UTF-8 is harder than you think.
-sv