RPM submission script

Eric S. Raymond esr at thyrsus.com
Fri Nov 7 20:39:37 UTC 2003


Alan Cox <alan at redhat.com>:
> RFC822 is problematic because \n and ":" can occur as part of multibyte
> symbols so dumb tools make dumb errors. It works for email only because
> SMTP uses some brain damaged "so dont do that" rules.

Not a problem.  I'll just specify that the input is expected to be UTF-8 and
screw all that multibyte crap.  World's going that direction anyway.
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		<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>





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