[Users] encoded addresses causing problems in reply

Slavko linux at slavino.sk
Thu Sep 8 07:45:04 UTC 2022


Dňa 8. 9. o 0:17 Derek B. Noonburg napísal(a):

> But why does $LANG affect the selection of base64 vs quoted-printable?

I can only guess, but Base64 is less efective than QP, and when one uses 
non UTF-8 locales (encoding), then no UTF-8 chars are expected and the 
QP can results in shorter string. Thus that selection seems to be 
logical, but...

The one of reasons, why UTF-8 encodings become default on nowadays 
(linux) systems is, that world becomes international and even people 
using usASCII only can meet UTF-8 chars (as in your case).

IMO CM have to do proper address encoding despide the locales settings, 
thus this can be considered as bug, but that must devs to decide.

regards

-- 
Slavko


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