[Mailman-Developers] ASCII Prefixes

[Barry A. Warsaw]

>>>>> "BG" == Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org> writes:

    >> Here's a tricky issue, one with a high rabbit hole probability
    >> (which I'd like to avoid if possible ;).  OTOH, we could use a
    >> simple heuristic to try to keep the prefix unencoded in the
    >> common case: if the prefix contains only ascii characters, we
    >> could choose to leave it in the default us-ascii (or really the
    >> None) encoding.  If it contains non-ascii characters, we'd have
    >> no choice but to encode it.

    BG> OTOOH, we could make *this* the per-list setting; we could
    BG> have the heuristic guess whether to encode or not if the list
    BG> owner wants it. That way we don't have to have a ton of prefix
    BG> character set settings, and we make the people who get angry
    BG> at seeing [MyFrenchList] encoded in header QP happy.

Is subject_prefix the only place this option would make sense?  If so,
then I can probably add a boolean variable to the General admin page,
otherwise I might want to add something to the Languages page.

    BG> Sorry for being absent recently, I'm finally at a job that's
    BG> challenging enough to make my brain not want to do coding at
    BG> home. :)

That's good (I think ;).  Welcome back, and I hope you'll stick
around!

-Barry