Re: Stupid quoting...

> Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com> writes:
> 
> > I was still in referernce to those "local conditions" at that
> > point. It was not meant as a universal statement. Substitutute that
> > for "A small bunch of swedish speaking people from Stockholm".
> 
> A wrong encoding is a wrong encoding.  Escaping the characters in
> transition will not magically make the encodings adapt.  Escaping
> characters buys us exactly zilch _unless_ the _channel_ is not 8-bit
> clean.  In which case we should use a normal
> mail-armoring/attachment/inline data wrapper.
> 
> In fact, when using editors with some heuristics regarding character
> sets (like Emacs), leaving 8-bit characters intact gives the editor a
> chance to guess the correct character set even if it is not the
> default on the receiving end.
> 
> Escaping the characters, in contrast, just hides 8-bit usage away in
> transition.  An escaped character in the wrong encoding will get
> reconstituted into the wrong encoding.
>