linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Convert files to UTF-8 and some cleanups

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Message-ID: <464899AE.9070206@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Date:	Mon, 14 May 2007 19:17:34 +0200
From:	Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>
To:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>
CC:	"John Anthony Kazos Jr." <jakj@...-k-j.com>, mgarski@...t.pl,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Convert files to UTF-8 and some cleanups

Adrian Bunk wrote:
> The problem is that the unconverted characters are always invalid UTF-8 [1],
> and it's 100% correct for a MUA to convert these invalid UTF-8 
> characters to replacement characters - if a MUA claims to send valid
> charset="utf-8", it is simply not allowed to preserve the byte codes.
...
> [1] except for some cases with two or more non 7bit ASCII 
>     characters in a row

OK, I missed that, sorry.  Then

	Content-type: text/plain; charset="unknown-8bit"

can be put to good use.
But as I said, at least a diffstat would be nice.
-- 
Stefan Richter
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