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Re: smtpmail and ~/.authinfo
From: |
Ted Zlatanov |
Subject: |
Re: smtpmail and ~/.authinfo |
Date: |
Mon, 26 Sep 2011 14:22:36 -0500 |
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On Mon, 26 Sep 2011 20:04:42 +0200 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <address@hidden>
wrote:
LMI> Ted Zlatanov <address@hidden> writes:
>> I think authinfo/netrc files should be portable and support Unicode in a
>> way that enables other (older or new!) software to use them too. IMHO
>> enforcing UTF-8 encoding is the best way to achieve that.
LMI> That's not realistic, I think.
...
LMI> So there isn't any wiggle room here. The user has to be able to store a
LMI> random sequence of bytes into the .authinfo file to be able to contact
LMI> their servers -- if they have been careless enough to create a non-ASCII
LMI> user name or password.
I agree 100%. I'm saying we should save the netrc/authinfo file in the
UTF-8 coding system instead of raw-text so Unicode characters in there
are usable by other programs too. Forget the `auth-source-search'
callers, they won't know or care. There will be no difference to their
usage or the data they get.
I believe random bytes can be encoded just fine by UTF-8. If they are
read by a program that doesn't know UTF-8 that's a problem, but IMO we
can live with it and it's entirely theoretical.
Ted
- 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, 2011/09/26
- Re: smtpmail and ~/.authinfo, Eli Zaretskii, 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, 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 <=
- 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
- Re: smtpmail and ~/.authinfo, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2011/09/26
- Re: smtpmail and ~/.authinfo, Ted Zlatanov, 2011/09/26
- Re: smtpmail and ~/.authinfo, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2011/09/27
- Re: smtpmail and ~/.authinfo, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2011/09/27
- Re: smtpmail and ~/.authinfo, Ted Zlatanov, 2011/09/27
- Re: smtpmail and ~/.authinfo, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2011/09/27
- Re: smtpmail and ~/.authinfo, Ted Zlatanov, 2011/09/27