Re: smtpmail and ~/.authinfo

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Mon, 26 Sep 2011 21:30:16 +0200 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <address@hidden> 
wrote: 

LMI> Ted Zlatanov <address@hidden> writes:
>> I agree 100%.  I'm saying we should save the netrc/authinfo file in the
>> UTF-8 coding system instead of raw-text so Unicode characters in there
>> are usable by other programs too.

LMI> No, if the sequence "héllo" is a five-byte sequence, it should be saved
LMI> as such.  Otherwise it's not usable to other programs.

That's exactly my point.  Right now we save as raw-text, which is not
usable to other programs in the long term.  In UTF-8 it would be saved
"as such" because IIRC all codepoints under 255 don't need to be encoded
(and your string goes up to 233).

Ted