Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql-server/ oc/src/sgml/catalogs.sgml rc/bac

Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 06:58:37 +0100,
>   Dennis Bj?rklund <db@zigo.dhs.org> wrote:
> > 
> > ps I've just changed my email name to my real name which is Dennis
> > Bj?rklund. I did that 5 years ago (still using pine) and got angry mails
> > back saying that my mails where broken. I hope the todays email programs 
> > can handle non-ascii names better...
> 
> It still isn't legal to use non US ASCII characters in headers. There
> is an encoding scheme that can be used for the subject header. There
> isn't such a system for the from header. While most mail programs
> won't crash when encoutering non ASCII, not everyone is going to see
> your name properly. People who are using Latin1 for display will probably
> see things correctly, but people using other extensions of US ASCII
> might see such things as graphics sysmbols rather than an o with an
> umlat.

I see a question mark with elm-ME, but that is OK.

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