[OT] email is crap ; -) (was Re: [MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] libass support in vf_vo)

[Rich Felker]

On Sat, Aug 26, 2006 at 10:25:14PM +0200, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> Hello,
> On Sat, Aug 26, 2006 at 04:17:28PM -0400, Rich Felker wrote:
> > (Yes I intentionally left it in quoted-printable notation so the
> > nonbreaking spaces that replaced the original correct ordinary spaces
> > are visible.)
> 
> You had to specially leave it like that? I don't know but I somehow
> managed to configure mutt to dislike everything special, because I get:

Well before I added latin-9 support to my libc I got a lot of crap
trying to display that message. WTF...why does KMail use latin-9 when
there are no euro signs instead of using the most-compatible encoding
that supports all the chars in the message (latin-1) or else utf-8?!
Anyway with latin-9 added it looks visually correct, but still KMail
inserted nbsp instead of normal spaces which would cause major
problems if someone tried to apply an inline patch..

> > + \240 \240 \240 \240 \240r->mt = r->mb = (vo_dwidth - aw) / 2;
> > + \240 \240 \240 \240 \240r->ml = r->mr = (vo_dheight - ah) / 2;
> 
> I have a very similar experience every time amazon.de tries again to put
> Umlauts in they emails.
> And every time I (and probably many others) tell them they have to set
> the charset for that to work. Which has the effect that instead of
> fixing it they write again ae instead of ä etc.

Bleh..

> Ridiculous, you'd expect that over the years they would manage to cope
> with the non-ascii world...

Yes it's easy to do right. The only excuse for not getting it right is
plain stupidity..

Rich