Re: git: 68df49bce28c - main - =?utf-8?Q?www/forgejo: Update 7.0.12 =E2=86=92 7.0.13 (fixes security vulnerabiliti=Q?www/forgejo: Update 7.0.12 =E2=86=92 7.0.13 (fixes security vulnerabiliti=

From: Michael Gmelin <grembo_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2025 16:09:19 UTC

On Mon, 10 Feb 2025 11:01:45 -0800
Yuri <yuri@FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> On 2/10/25 10:16, Cy Schubert wrote:
> > This makes sense as a) the inbox in older mail clients show strange 
> > 7-bit ASCII subject lines plus depending on one's locale commit
> > logs contain various escape and other sequences that may only
> > display correctly in the selected locale. i.e.,  
> 
> 
> UNICODE/UTF has been around for decades now.
> 
> If some mail clients are so outdated that they still don't understand 
> UTF8, the primary concern would be the likely lack of security fixes
> in such clients.
> Such clients should be deprecated immediately for this reason alone.
> All modern software understands or should understand UTF8.

Besides accepting that UTF-8 is here to stay and regardless of what I
think about using it unnecessarily, there are already about 9000
commits containing "→" in the ports repo alone - the first ones from
2022 - and more and more tooling seems to auto-convert ASCII to UTF-8
(smileys, arrows, etc.) - so there is no point to panic about it.

Like I wrote in my first response to this thread, there is already a
fix for the mail hook in QA that will hopefully be deployed soon.

-m

-- 
Michael Gmelin