Re: Human-readable notation language

Jon Callas <jon@callas.org> Tue, 18 April 2006 19:44 UTC

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From: Jon Callas <jon@callas.org>
Subject: Re: Human-readable notation language
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 12:18:30 -0700
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On 12 Oct 2005, at 9:04 AM, David Shaw wrote:

> To my reading, this says more or less, "this is a note from one person
> to another except when it isn't".  Especially given such notations as
> preferred-email-encoding@pgp.com which are always human-readable, I
> suggest this:
>
>      First octet: 0x80 = human-readable. This note value is text.
>
> It's just simpler.
>

Just to be clear, this change is in.

	Jon