Henk van Lingen writes:
On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 03:31:00AM +0100, Paul L. Allen wrote:
Really, really, really, really. If you understand regexps then you
ought to understand EOL conventions.
This may all be true, but it's besides my point that maildrop shouldn't
fail on a silly DOS format.
If you're going to take the attitude that maildrop should cope with
users editing files with a Windoze editor then you also ought to cope
with them using Word to do so and ending up with directed single or
double quotes, either at the character positions where Microsoft put
them or at the Unicode character positions. And you probably ought to
cope with Word's "smart quotes" not always being that smart and sometimes
pairing them in the wrong order.
It is unconscionable that maildrop should not protect users who edit
files using broken software. Oh, and don't forget to support Hindic-
speaking users who insist on using Hindic digits instead of 0-9. Etc.
I still think that anybody who understands maildrop's syntax well enough
to be able to create a working filter file ought to be bright enough
to figure out that EOL characters need to be converted. Or that if you're
going to let them do this sort of thing, and presumably have given them
instructions and examples, your documentation could include text saying
that they have to run dos2unix after uploading.
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