[rescue] OT: broken de-MIME-ers should be shot! ;-)

[Kurt Mosiejczuk]

On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, Greg A. Woods wrote:

> >  Since DeMIME
> > is bringing it to plain old ASCII text, that degree symbol needs to be
> > translated into something.

> " deg. " or even " degrees " would have been better than another zero....

I'll definitely agree on this one.

> Who was the idiot who wrote that code anyway?  He or she had better have
> a really good excuse, such as being completely blind or something....

I wonder if the author just looked quick at a table and saw a funny looking
'o', and thouht it was a zero.  Might have just made a simple mistake
trying to translate.  If he was being really stupid his software would
just drop alternate character sets completely.  At least he was putting
some effort into this.  I suspect a bug report would probably get it fixed.
Be nice though, Greg =)

> Personally I'd be quite happy with just ISO-8859, but I do have quite a
> bit of direct experience working with (non-spammers!) in Asian and other
> "Eastern" countries where any 8-bit character set encoding is lame and
> useless....  Unicode/UTF-8 is probably the best possible solution, but
> unless we _all_ start using M$-Win2k tomorrow, that's just not going to
> happen very quickly....

Is UTF-8 useless for Asian countries?  And is UTF-8 something that is mainly
pushed by Win2k?  If so, I take back my comment about better handling it =)

--Kurt