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Re: smtpmail and ~/.authinfo
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: smtpmail and ~/.authinfo |
Date: |
Mon, 26 Sep 2011 20:15:52 +0300 |
> From: Ted Zlatanov <address@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2011 11:53:18 -0500
>
> >> Could you help me (or point me to the right examples) to:
> >>
> >> - always create/write a file in UTF-8 on every platform
>
> EZ> You mean, force Emacs to encode .authinfo in UTF-8 when creating it?
> EZ> I guess that's the job for file-coding-system-alist.
>
> So I would just override that when writing the netrc/authinfo file. I
> can't imagine any value in letting the user override the UTF-8 encoding,
> can you?
No, I cannot.
> >> - opportunistically open the file in binary, raw-text, UTF-8, etc. on
> >> every platform
>
> EZ> Sorry, I don't understand what you'd like to do. Please elaborate,
> EZ> and I will gladly try to help.
>
> There must be netrc/authinfo files written in binary encoding because
> that was the default. I'd like to open them, but also open UTF-8
> encoded netrc/authinfo files, and also accept raw-text or any other
> reasonably guessed encoding. For UTF-8 there are heuristics but Emacs
> has them built-in, right? So I don't have to write special code to
> guess?
>
> The alternative is to try as utf-8, then try binary, then give up. But
> that's less friendly to the user I think.
Just let Emacs do its usual guesswork.
- Re: smtpmail and ~/.authinfo, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2011/09/10
- Re: smtpmail and ~/.authinfo, Ted Zlatanov, 2011/09/25
- Re: smtpmail and ~/.authinfo, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/09/25
- Re: smtpmail and ~/.authinfo, Ted Zlatanov, 2011/09/25
- Re: smtpmail and ~/.authinfo, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/09/25
- Re: smtpmail and ~/.authinfo, Ted Zlatanov, 2011/09/26
- Re: smtpmail and ~/.authinfo, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/09/26
- Re: smtpmail and ~/.authinfo, Ted Zlatanov, 2011/09/26
- Re: smtpmail and ~/.authinfo,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: smtpmail and ~/.authinfo, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/09/26
- Re: smtpmail and ~/.authinfo, Ted Zlatanov, 2011/09/26
- Re: smtpmail and ~/.authinfo, Stefan Monnier, 2011/09/26
- Re: smtpmail and ~/.authinfo, Ted Zlatanov, 2011/09/26
- Re: smtpmail and ~/.authinfo, Stefan Monnier, 2011/09/26
- Re: smtpmail and ~/.authinfo, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2011/09/26
- Re: smtpmail and ~/.authinfo, Ted Zlatanov, 2011/09/26
- Re: smtpmail and ~/.authinfo, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2011/09/26
- Re: smtpmail and ~/.authinfo, Ted Zlatanov, 2011/09/26
- Re: smtpmail and ~/.authinfo, Stefan Monnier, 2011/09/26