From: Linus Torvalds Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 05:43:19 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] Try URI quoting for embedded TAB and LF in pathnames Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <87ek6ork3y.fsf@penguin.cs.ucla.edu> On Thu, 13 Oct 2005, Paul Eggert wrote: > Linus Torvalds 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