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Matt Parker matt@mpcontracting.co.uk wrote:
On Thursday 20 October 2005 17:03, Richard Kettlewell wrote:
I don't have a resistance to using 8bit, just that KMail came pre-configured to use QP and I'm happy with it. Plain 8bit is only a sensible choice from the point of view of people who insist on using tools that don't support it.
So we should abandon a huge collection of widely used and well-standardized tools just because you're too lazy to change a badly thought out default? Right...
Or, possibly it's because you're too lazy to upgrade to more modern tools that can handle it. It can be looked at both ways.
It's only badly thought out in your opinion. I happen to think it's a decent default for my needs, and I'm obviously not the only one since the KMail team also think so.
Besides, no-one's having problems with my e-mails except for Anthony. It's obvious its his mail client that's broken as evidenced by the fact that most on this list are seeing squares and/or backslashes for some of the (presumably extended character set) characters that he's using in his e-mails.
*SIGH* - quoted printable is generally a broken idea, personally, I don't give a shit how you encode your mail, but I am now bored of this ongoing thread that has nothing new to offer...
I haven't had problems with either of the posts, but then mutt just rocks and hides the crap that other mail clients put in. I get nice, plain, text. Now, I will agree with Jonathon that I didn't get the characters of one of the posts that Anthony sent, but as Jonathon said at the time, that was just a missing encoding type header.
These are 2 seperate issues, anyways - and I'd rather see mail as straight normal utf-8 than quoted-printable... who actually wants to print their mail afterall ;)
Now if all mail clients would kindly support flowed text, then we'd be in with a chance... as it stands, lets just all agree to disagree, and have done with it? It seems somewhat silly to be arguing about this. Can you both read each others posts? Obviously you can... so, how about we leave it at that (yes, =20 at the end of lines because a MUA doesn't support quoted-printable is a pain, but at the end of the day, who really cares?)
Thanks, - -- Brett Parker web: http://www.sommitrealweird.co.uk/ email: iDunno@sommitrealweird.co.uk