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Re: [openpgp] Character encodings

Werner Koch <wk@gnupg.org> Wed, 18 March 2015 10:41 UTC

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Subject: Re: [openpgp] Character encodings
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On Wed, 18 Mar 2015 10:42, nicholas.cole@gmail.com said:

> Wouldn't anything that can be cut and pasted essentially run in to
> this problem? I do think there is still utility in having something

Yeah, but we would delegate that to the MIME department and thus
simplify OpenPGP itself.


Shalom-Salam,

   Werner


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