Re: email address handling

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To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...>
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Date: Friday, August 1, 2008 - 6:49 pm

On Fri, 1 Aug 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote:

Btw, poor guy is _really_ screwed. He'd show up as

	"=?utf-8?q?S=2E=C3=87a=C4=9Flar?= Onur" <caglar@pardus.org.tr>

which must really hurt.

Can you not see how STUPID it would be to say that the name should be 
shown as an email encoding requires it?

Really. Just admit that you were wrong. The fact is, asking for rfc2822 
encoding in logs etc is a HORRIBLY HORRIBLY stupid thing to do.

What you really want was just something you could cut-and-paste into your 
mailer. Which actually means that the only special character is probably 
",", and your claims of how bad the design was that it didn't leave the 
total mess that rfc2822 is was actually not true, and was based on simply 
not knowing how nasty the real world is...

Quote frankly, If I had one of the Finnish special characters in my name, 
I'd piss on your grave if you suggested that. Try to guess what something 
like

	 =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Linus_T=F6rnqvist?= <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

is supposed to be.

			Linus
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email address handling, Andrew Morton, (Thu Jul 31, 10:40 pm)
Re: email address handling, Linus Torvalds, (Fri Aug 1, 3:34 pm)
Re: email address handling, Andrew Morton, (Fri Aug 1, 3:45 pm)
Re: email address handling, Junio C Hamano, (Fri Aug 1, 4:00 pm)
Re: email address handling, Andrew Morton, (Fri Aug 1, 4:14 pm)
Re: email address handling, Linus Torvalds, (Fri Aug 1, 3:56 pm)
Re: email address handling, Andrew Morton, (Fri Aug 1, 4:11 pm)
Re: email address handling, Linus Torvalds, (Fri Aug 1, 4:17 pm)
Re: email address handling, Andrew Morton, (Fri Aug 1, 4:24 pm)
Re: email address handling, Linus Torvalds, (Fri Aug 1, 4:40 pm)
Re: email address handling, Andrew Morton, (Fri Aug 1, 4:54 pm)
Re: email address handling, Junio C Hamano, (Fri Aug 1, 5:50 pm)
Re: email address handling, Andrew Morton, (Fri Aug 1, 5:58 pm)
Re: email address handling, Linus Torvalds, (Fri Aug 1, 6:23 pm)
Re: email address handling, Andrew Morton, (Fri Aug 1, 6:41 pm)
Re: email address handling, Theodore Tso, (Fri Aug 1, 6:15 pm)
Re: email address handling, Andrew Morton, (Fri Aug 1, 6:27 pm)
Re: email address handling, Linus Torvalds, (Fri Aug 1, 6:39 pm)
Re: email address handling, Andrew Morton, (Fri Aug 1, 6:49 pm)
Re: email address handling, Linus Torvalds, (Fri Aug 1, 6:55 pm)
Re: email address handling, Linus Torvalds, (Fri Aug 1, 7:16 pm)
Re: email address handling, Johannes Schindelin, (Sat Aug 2, 7:31 am)
Re: email address handling, Linus Torvalds, (Sat Aug 2, 12:20 pm)
Re: email address handling, Junio C Hamano, (Sat Aug 2, 1:50 pm)
Re: email address handling, Junio C Hamano, (Sat Aug 2, 12:40 pm)
Re: email address handling, Junio C Hamano, (Sat Aug 2, 12:42 pm)
Re: email address handling, Junio C Hamano, (Sat Aug 2, 12:36 pm)
Re: email address handling, Johannes Schindelin, (Sat Aug 2, 12:59 pm)
Re: email address handling, Linus Torvalds, (Sat Aug 2, 1:08 pm)
Re: email address handling, Linus Torvalds, (Fri Aug 1, 6:34 pm)
Re: email address handling, Linus Torvalds, (Fri Aug 1, 6:49 pm)
Re: email address handling, Karl , (Mon Aug 4, 4:14 pm)
Re: email address handling, Andrew Morton, (Fri Aug 1, 6:44 pm)
Re: email address handling, Linus Torvalds, (Fri Aug 1, 6:52 pm)
Re: email address handling, Andrew Morton, (Fri Aug 1, 7:00 pm)
Re: email address handling, Linus Torvalds, (Fri Aug 1, 5:12 pm)
Re: email address handling, Johannes Schindelin, (Fri Aug 1, 5:16 pm)
Re: email address handling, Junio C Hamano, (Fri Aug 1, 5:25 pm)
Re: email address handling, Johannes Schindelin, (Sat Aug 2, 7:03 am)
Re: email address handling, Linus Torvalds, (Fri Aug 1, 4:41 pm)
Re: email address handling, Junio C Hamano, (Fri Aug 1, 4:07 pm)