[sylpheed:31312] Re: PGP/MIME-signing breaks sig delimiter

[Michael Schwendt]

On 14/05/07, Godwin Stewart wrote:
> On Mon, 14 May 2007 21:02:29 +0200, "Michael Schwendt"
> <mschwendt at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > +               if ( out_charset == CS_ISO_2022_JP ) {
> > > +                       encoding = ENC_7BIT;
> >
> > Doubtful, IMO. ISO 2022 JP includes escape sequences for 8-bit and
> > multi-byte encodings.
>
> Hmm... I was only going on what was written by a Japanese native in
> message #31301:
>
> > In conclusion, I think it should be reverted to the previous
> > behavior, but with some exceptions (if charset=ISO-2022-JP, send with
> > 7bit with stripping trailing whitespaces).

It's okay. I've had to skim over RFC 1468 first to confirm that it's
entirely 7-bit, that is it uses only 7 bits even in its multi-byte
sequences. Other summaries of the encoding refer to 8-bit in a
misleading way.