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Re: [Nmh-workers] A € for your thoughts - should we fix UTF-8 subject ou


From: Ken Hornstein
Subject: Re: [Nmh-workers] A € for your thoughts - should we fix UTF-8 subject output in scan for 1.5?
Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 10:56:07 -0400

>Should this be fixed? Absolutely. But I'm not seeing a massive benefit 
>in rushing it through into 1.5 this late in the release process, though. 
>It's been broken forever. Waiting until 1.6 won't hurt.

Here's the thing ... it's only been broken for some people.  So you
could argue it's a portability issue.

>Incidentally, I'd say OS X is very buggy if it's interpreting bytes
>above 127 as whitespace in a UTF-8 locale, given that no single byte
>in that range is valid UTF-8. There's an argument for iscntrl(), but
>even that's a bit tenuous. I'd probably just say that all of the 
>isxxxx() functions should return false for those values.

My question back to you: do the is* functions take bytes, or
characters?  If they take bytes, then I agree with you.  If they
take characters ... well, I'm not sure what is right.

--Ken



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