[cups.general] Chinese users, use UTF-8, or at least GB18030
Michael Sweet
mike at easysw.com
Sat Sep 16 05:02:46 PDT 2006
Bob Rosenberg wrote:
> At 18:59 -0400 on 09/15/2006, Michael Sweet wrote about Re:
> [cups.general] Chinese users, use UTF-8, or at least GB:
>
>> Ambrose Li wrote:
>>> On 15/09/06, Michael Sweet <mike at easysw.com> wrote:
>>>> We get a LOT of SPAM in EUC-CN, and since we don't speak Chinese and
>>>> don't do business in China, we block EUC-CN messages.
>>>
>>> The only problem with this is that this server hosts cups at easysw.com
>>> which is a mailing list for USERS, and some users are going to be
>>> Chinese.
>>
>> and the lists a English language lists...
>>
>>> Some people put their Chinese name in "From". So when a Chinese person
>>> tries to send a question (or when someone tries to reply to a Chinese
>>> person), the posting is blocked if the software defaults to GB2312 for
>>> Chinese.
>> > ...
>>
>> We're not going to change our message filters, sorry.
>
> Can't you meet these users halfway by allowing GB2312 in the From but
> blocking it when it occurs in the MIME CHARSET? I've seen lots of Email
> with USASCII Charsets but a q-encoded From name so there IS a difference
> you can key off.
There is no way to tell the difference between the two - the message
character set is normally the same as the character set used for the
headers...
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