Warning during installation of ns-2.34 on fedora-11

[Ed Greshko]

On 05/11/2010 05:11 PM, Tim wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-05-10 at 15:54 +0000, g wrote:
>   
>> i was filtering out *base 64* posters, but there are several of them
>> who do appear to be rather versed in their knowledge. tho i do wish
>> they would show more of their knowledge by posting *text/plain*.
>>     
> You might acquire a bit of knowledge, and learn that base 64 and HTML
> are two completely different things.  There are some languages which
> just aren't going to post in text/plain.
>   
I think you may have mis-typed or I'm misreading.

The only RFC defined text MIME types that I'm aware of are....

css, csv, html, plain, and xml

plain is for any textual data in any "language".  Now, certainly there
are some (many) "languages" which either must use base64,
quoted-printable, or 8bit in order to ensure they are transmitted
without lost of fidelity.

> Any client that cannot handle base 64 encoding is really bad.  It's just
> a content encoding scheme.  Insisting no-one post in it is as stupid as
> insisting that nobody must ever post in iso-8859-15.
>
>   


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