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Use MIME (Was: encoding of /etc/passwd)

Markus Kuhn <mgk25@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>Global files such as /etc/*, /usr/include/*, etc. obviously *must* remain
>in a locale invariant encoding. This is today ISO 646 IRV (US-ASCII).
>Hopefully it will one day become UTF-8. ISO 8859-1 has no place in
>/etc/passwd and similar files and should be strongly discouraged there.


 It is possible to encode strings in global files into *locale-independent* format
as MIME RFC-2047, like MIME-encoded headers in ALL modern e-mail
(with any Charsets, even UTF-8  ;). So, MUA could take this strings as-is.

To: =?utf-8?B?0LXRg9GL0LU=?=


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