On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 16:01:21 -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: 

> On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 03:42:14PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> Since I do not think that UTF-8 is broken, I am unlikely to

> You are entitled to your own opinion. I prefer to let mine be guided
> by casual and careful empiricism.

> And the fact remains that the enforeced switch to UTF-8 turned a
> *working* piece of infrastructure into a *broken* one.

        It was not actually working. mailcrypt created something, and
 then emacs went and was free to mangle it -- which means it is broken
 for any message body that has anything that is non ascii.  In this
 day and age, that is broken.

        Updating to easypg should be on your todo list.

> Again, see lwn.net. Evidently I am not the only being bitten by
> this.

        Lots of people have broken MUAs.  That is their problem.

        I suggest you strive to enter this millennium. Being a Luddite
 in a technology project gets old real fast.

        manoj
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Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
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