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Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2013 18:56:39 +0100
From: magnum <john.magnum@...hmail.com>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: What is a digit?

On 4 Jan, 2013, at 18:52 , Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 04, 2013 at 06:37:18PM +0100, magnum wrote:
>> [these mails will look terrible in Openwall's list archive due to not supporting UTF-8 - use Gmane instead]
> 
> Actually, Openwall's list archive uses UTF-8 now, which is precisely why
> these messages look terrible there.  Both Frank's message and yours are
> actually in iso-8859-1, not UTF-8.  What will help is adding support for
> re-coding from other charsets to UTF-8 to blists - this is on to-do.
> Such re-coding is currently implemented for message headers, but not yet
> for message bodies.

Great, I did not know that. I thought my MUA would default to UTF-8 but it might have picked encoding from what I replied to.

magnum

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