Re: [nmh-workers] Bleeping idiots!

[Ken Hornstein]

>> >    Content-Type: text/html; charset="ansi_x3.4-1968"
>>
>> That character set is interesting.
>
>The 1968 revision allows LF to occur on its own compared to 1967's where
>it always had to be LF CR or CR LF, but other than that still had many
>of 67's oddities, e.g. ‘!’ could be rendered as ‘!’ or ‘|’, ditto ‘^’
>that was allowed to look like ‘¬’.  Probably not the creator of that
>Content-Type field's intention.

I was more thinking that I was not sure that was valid, but I guess
looking at the IANA registry it's a permitted alias for us-ascii.  I am
wondering if either that was some software that did that, or some human
thought that was a good idea.

--Ken