John Summerfied wrote:
-15 is a roman character set.
It ain't necessarily so.
Mutt, for example, comes configured by default to send in us-ascii if it can, then iso-8859-1, and if it can't, to use utf-8. ISO 8859-1 doesn't include the Euro sign, so it just takes someone to talk currencies, and you're sunk. (That's why I've got iso-8859-15 in the list).
Ulrich Drepper (glibc maintainer) occasionally posts here. His signature includes utf-8 characters, so you'll *never* see him. That is a loss.
I've not (yet) observed utf8 being used for Chinese etc, so I'm not blocking it. I am blocking those that have been used. Nor do I block mail containing escaped non-roman character sets: I use the content-type header.
Sometimes I will need to explain, again, just why we need UTF-8. Or explain why a Greek rho is a different letter to a Latin P. I could include all the ISO 8859 variants on the list: these days, programs are more likely to understand UTF.
And in any case, you will be rejecting people whose only crime is to write their names properly.
Not so.
As Paul says, there is *very* *very* little spam on the lists.
You have the right to bounce mail based on whatever characteristics you choose. But this *is* a Fedora list. There were good reasons why Red Hat went UTF-8 back whenever it was. And good reasons why it's here in e-mail. So I would recommend you don't bounce UTF-8 on the list.
The server isn't just for mail for this list; the filtering's done at SMTP time on postfix.
James.
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