On Monday 05 January 2004 16:24, Ian Grigg wrote:
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Also, any trailing whitespace (spaces, and tabs, 0x09) at the end of
any line is ignored when the cleartext signature is calculated.
2. Are there UTF-8 whitespace encodings that
are not in the definitions above?
I.e., not in "spaces, and tabs, 0x09" .
3. What was the original deep dark motivation
for stripping whitespace from the end of lines
anyway?
4. Do we care if UTF-8 has some weird whitespace/
line endings?
IIRC from previous discussions (I wasn't around for years when PGP was
introduced to the world...): some mailers (MUAs and MTAs) used to strip
whitespace occasionally or do other weird things.
Those old mailers would probably either treat all non-ASCII whitespace and
line-endings as normal characters, or not be 8-bit clean anyway and so cause
problems in any case. So the answer to (4) is probably a clear no.
cheers
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