Howto: 32 bit skype, working with a webcam, on 64 bit Fedora 17

[Tim]

On Mon, 2012-10-22 at 17:33 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
> you can either argue that the list server software needs to be "fixed"
> or "configured" to do the transformation so you can continue to use
> your UTF-7.....  Or you can be a "good citizen" and use UTF-8....at
> least until the problem that you're going to bugzilla is fixed.

I would argue that HTML archives need to transcode incoming text into
what ever the website servers the archives out, or that each archived
email in a page needs to be served with the appropriate headers for the
content that it's serving.  The former would be the easiest,
particularly as all page content needs to be the same (message, and all
the frippery around it that makes an email in an webpage with links, and
things).  It is wrong to serve webpages that are supposedly encoded in
one scheme, but actually in another.

If the complaint is about users wanting to text scrape their own mail
spools, then they need to use tools which scrape the data in the
encoding that it actually is stored in.  Either a multi-encoding-capable
tool is required (since mail can come in any form), or the local mail
needs to be written to the scheme the user wants to use.

Personally I have no great desire to have to use UTF-7, it was just
picked as a choice that was supposed to be a good one.  Since this has
become a debacle, I've changed it.  But they should all "just work" in
modern clients, though they will fail when users start forcing an
encoding type in their reader, regardless of actual content type.  The
actual source code behind them shouldn't be a problem.

By the way, in this thread, see a series of messages by Ed Greshko, but
with quotes from Reindl Harald that don't seem to be on the list.  Yet
there's, semi-obviously, been a discussion.  Is this private replies
being made public, or another of those strange list moderations?

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[tim at localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp
Linux 3.6.2-4.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Oct 17 02:43:21 UTC 2012 x86_64

All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point
trying to privately email me, I will only read messages posted to the
public lists.