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Re: smtpmail and ~/.authinfo
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: smtpmail and ~/.authinfo |
Date: |
Tue, 27 Sep 2011 05:51:58 +0300 |
> From: Ted Zlatanov <address@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2011 14:40:07 -0500
>
> On Mon, 26 Sep 2011 22:34:21 +0300 Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> >> From: Ted Zlatanov <address@hidden>
> >> Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2011 14:22:36 -0500
> >>
> >> I believe random bytes can be encoded just fine by UTF-8.
>
> EZ> No, they cannot. A given sequence of "random bytes" can be a valid
> EZ> UTF-8 encoding of some character with a sufficiently large code point.
>
> But that's not what I said :) They can be *encoded* to a UTF-8 sequence
> than can be eventually decoded back from UTF-8.
No. Some byte sequences are invalid UTF-8, and are decoded into a
single special character. IOW, what you suggest is in general lossy
conversion.
- Re: smtpmail and ~/.authinfo, (continued)
- Re: smtpmail and ~/.authinfo, Ted Zlatanov, 2011/09/26
- Re: smtpmail and ~/.authinfo, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/09/26
- Re: smtpmail and ~/.authinfo, Ted Zlatanov, 2011/09/27
- Re: smtpmail and ~/.authinfo, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/09/27
- Re: smtpmail and ~/.authinfo, Stefan Monnier, 2011/09/27
- Re: smtpmail and ~/.authinfo, Jason Rumney, 2011/09/27
- Re: smtpmail and ~/.authinfo, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/09/26
- Re: smtpmail and ~/.authinfo, Ted Zlatanov, 2011/09/26
- Re: smtpmail and ~/.authinfo,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: smtpmail and ~/.authinfo, Jason Rumney, 2011/09/27