Re: [PATCH] Try URI quoting for embedded TAB and LF in pathnames

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Oct 14, 2005, 05:43 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0510132229490.23590@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <87ek6ork3y.fsf@penguin.cs.ucla.edu>

On Thu, 13 Oct 2005, Paul Eggert wrote:

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> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:
> 
> > I find that email is very robust - it's basically 8-bit clean. No 
> > character encoding, no crap. Just a byte stream. It really _is_ the most 
> > reliable format.
> 
> I found another amusing bit of info that tends to undercut this claim.

No, I think you found that email as a _transfer_ is mostly 8-bit clean (finally! Oh - has qmail gotten fixed?).

But the end-points aren't. They do strange things with encodings, sometimes. They see an encoding they don't know what to do with, and they just freak out.

		Linus