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Re: [Nmh-workers] General question - unsupported charset conversion
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Lyndon Nerenberg |
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Re: [Nmh-workers] General question - unsupported charset conversion |
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Fri, 28 Feb 2014 11:41:47 -0800 |
This gets very icky, very quickly :-P
My feeling is that if you don't recognize the source character set, you cannot
possibly convert it to a display format in any secure manner. By default I
think we should not display the content, but instead spit out a diagnostic,
with the option to re-run the show (or whatever) with a command-line option
that passes the content through unconverted.
I'm of mixed feelings about converting unknown characters to a proxy (e.g.
'?'). This could be exploited to inject terminal escape sequences into xterm
(or your VT220 – I know people who still use them!).
Yet another argument for declaring nmh a utf8-only zone, and convert everything
to that on the way in. We could bundle our own internal iconv and just call it
a day.
--lyndon
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- Re: [Nmh-workers] General question - unsupported charset conversion, Jerrad Pierce, 2014/02/28
- Re: [Nmh-workers] General question - unsupported charset conversion, Ken Hornstein, 2014/02/28
- Re: [Nmh-workers] General question - unsupported charset conversion,
Lyndon Nerenberg <=
- Re: [Nmh-workers] General question - unsupported charset conversion, Ken Hornstein, 2014/02/28
- Re: [Nmh-workers] General question - unsupported charset conversion, Lyndon Nerenberg, 2014/02/28
- Re: [Nmh-workers] General question - unsupported charset conversion, Lyndon Nerenberg, 2014/02/28
- Re: [Nmh-workers] General question - unsupported charset conversion, Ken Hornstein, 2014/02/28
- Re: [Nmh-workers] General question - unsupported charset conversion, Lyndon Nerenberg, 2014/02/28
- Re: [Nmh-workers] General question - unsupported charset conversion, Ken Hornstein, 2014/02/28
- Re: [Nmh-workers] General question - unsupported charset conversion, Lyndon Nerenberg, 2014/02/28
- Re: [Nmh-workers] General question - unsupported charset conversion, Lyndon Nerenberg, 2014/02/28
- Re: [Nmh-workers] General question - unsupported charset conversion, Ken Hornstein, 2014/02/28
- Re: [Nmh-workers] General question - unsupported charset conversion, Jerrad Pierce, 2014/02/28