Subj : Re: oh those russians
To   : Maurice Kinal
From : Konstantin Kuzov
Date : Wed Mar 01 2017 13:35:58

Greetings, Maurice!

KK>> Using CP1251 exactly where? And why don't KOI8-R? Or even
KK>> ISO-8859-5?
MK> Do you have any statistics to back any of that up?  I only went by what
MK> I've witnessed in the past.

Why I need to back anything up? It was yours assumption that most Russian users using CP1251.

MK> At one time the majority of Russian sites appeared to be KOI8-R based
MK> but not anymore.  I see mostly UTF-8 these days and only one of them
MK> required a CHRS kludge.  At the time I wondered how many hoops had to be
MK> jumped through to cripple the Apache module to 'accept' that silliness.
MK> :::snicker:::

What apache module? Webserver shouldn't care about content it serves. Just as a fidonet's mailers doesn't care about bundles content.
If site administrator used some clutches like mod_charset_lite then his backends were lacking. For example old mysql database.

MK> It doesn't matter.  It makes absolutely zero difference if I do or don't care.

If you don't care that you messages could not be read correctly then you can continue to write with bogus or missing codepage information. But if it was in my power I would have restricted such traffic and treat it as a case of 1.3.5 with all its consequences.

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