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Re: buster, ekiga.

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On Wed 24 Jul 2019 at 07:10:14 (-0400), rhkramer@gmail.com wrote:
> On Tuesday, July 23, 2019 11:07:37 AM Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 07:41:20AM -0700, peter@easthope.ca wrote:
> > > *	From: Brad Rogers
> > 
> > Oh, it's this guy again.
> > 
> > /me looks at the raw mail message with less(1)
> > 
> > *       From: Brad Rogers ^@brad@fineby.me.uk^@
> > 
> > Yup.  Two NUL bytes in the body of the message.  How completely bizarre.
> > 
> > Apparently what mutt does is truncate that *line* at the first NUL
> > byte, but then show all the other lines after that just fine.
> > 
> > Other people are seeing the entire message truncated at that point, not
> > just one line truncated.
> > 
> > Peter, whatever you're doing with your outgoing mail is really strange,
> > and if possible, you should try to stop it.  Embedding raw NUL characters
> > in the body of an email is a problem.
> 
> +1

Well, since Greg's message was posted, the OP has explained their
actions, which were made with good intentions. I hope my reply in
the other thread will save the OP some time and effort as well as
benefitting us all here.

However, I would not award +1 to the MUAs that, we are told,
truncate the message, or even just the line, at the first
NUL byte. That could yield a message with a very different sense
from what the sender wrote. If the MUA is outputting Unicode,
there exists a REPLACEMENT CHARACTER (U+FFFD) for replacing an
unknown, unrecognized or unrepresentable character. But if the
MUA decides that it's valid, but unprintable, it should just
escape it as is usual.

Cheers,
David.

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Re: buster, ekiga. peter@easthope.ca - 2019-07-23 17:00 +0200
  Re: buster, ekiga. Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2019-07-23 17:10 +0200
    Re: buster, ekiga. <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2019-07-23 18:40 +0200
    Odd character, was Re: buster, ekiga. David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-07-23 21:20 +0200
      Re: Odd character, was Re: buster, ekiga. <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2019-07-23 21:30 +0200
      Re: Odd character, was Re: buster, ekiga. <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2019-07-23 21:40 +0200
        Re: Odd character, was Re: buster, ekiga. Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2019-07-23 23:00 +0200
      Re: Odd character, was Re: buster, ekiga. Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2019-07-23 21:40 +0200
        Re: Odd character, was Re: buster, ekiga. <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2019-07-23 22:10 +0200
      Re: Odd character, was Re: buster, ekiga. Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2019-07-23 21:40 +0200
        Re: Odd character, was Re: buster, ekiga. David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-07-25 18:40 +0200
    Re: buster, ekiga. rhkramer@gmail.com - 2019-07-24 13:20 +0200
      Re: buster, ekiga. David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-07-24 16:40 +0200
        Re: buster, ekiga. Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2019-07-24 19:20 +0200
          Re: buster, ekiga. <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2019-07-24 19:30 +0200
            Re: buster, ekiga. Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2019-07-24 20:00 +0200
              Re: buster, ekiga. Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2019-07-24 23:00 +0200
              Re: buster, ekiga. Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> - 2019-07-24 23:00 +0200
                Re: buster, ekiga. <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2019-07-24 23:10 +0200
              Re: buster, ekiga. David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-07-24 23:00 +0200
                Re: buster, ekiga. <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2019-07-24 23:10 +0200
                Re: buster, ekiga. Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2019-07-24 23:20 +0200
                Re: buster, ekiga. <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2019-07-24 23:30 +0200
                Re: buster, ekiga. David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-07-25 18:40 +0200
                Re: buster, ekiga. Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2019-07-25 13:40 +0200
  Re: buster, ekiga. Brad Rogers <brad@fineby.me.uk> - 2019-07-23 17:30 +0200

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