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Re: smtpmail and ~/.authinfo
From: |
Ted Zlatanov |
Subject: |
Re: smtpmail and ~/.authinfo |
Date: |
Tue, 27 Sep 2011 05:29:02 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
On Tue, 27 Sep 2011 13:07:42 +0900 "Stephen J. Turnbull" <address@hidden>
wrote:
SJT> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes:
>> On the other hand, if auth-source prompts for a password, and you type
>> in something non-ASCII, the result will probably be something utf8-ey, I
>> think?
SJT> No. 1.3 billion Chinese are very likely to use GB2312, not to mention
SJT> 130 million Japanese who use Shift JIS. These are not UTF-8-ey in
SJT> several ways, and Shift JIS even abuses octets in the ASCII range for
SJT> use in multibyte characters.
UTF-8 is an encoding; you're talking about charsets. Can you explain
more precisely what you mean by "not UTF-8-ey in several ways"?
SJT> If you have *no* password and the user asks to store one, yes, use
SJT> UTF-8, and warn the user that Emacs has chosen to use the standard
SJT> Unicode encoding "UTF-8", but other applications (especially on
SJT> Windows) may choose something else. In which case the user will be
SJT> unable to log in from those applications.
Would it be enough to let the user override that coding system choice
through a defcustom? For all the use cases I have seen, UTF-8 is
enough, so I'd rather use it by default.
SJT> If you already have a password, it should be read verbatim (binary, or
SJT> raw-text should do given the line-oriented nature of these
SJT> configuration files) and treated as a binary blob.
That's not helpful when you need to encode it for IMAP, for instance.
You have to know the actual characters that make up the binary blob.
Ted
- Re: smtpmail and ~/.authinfo, (continued)
- 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
- 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 <=
- Re: smtpmail and ~/.authinfo, Stephen J. Turnbull, 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, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/09/28
- 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