Tue, 20 Mar 2007

DPL 2007 vote

"All of your vote are belong to bit-bucket"

Well, the ballot describes Raphaël's name as is. My MUA wanderlust shows it in "Content-Type: unknown-8bit" and seems confused.

More badly, all of my votes are rejected by CRC errors. Although I tried to store&sign by hand, to change the environment variables, to use mutt, and so on, my all challenges hadn't changed anything.

...OK, I prefer to create pure English environment rather than to waste a time to fight against environment/encoding problems... will do later. [update] Finally I succeeded to vote :)

Mr.Secretary, could you use only ASCII characters in a ballot sheet from next time?

(If Junichi was one of candidates and he wanted to describe his name in Japanese Kanji characters, most voters would face a very difficult situation :)

Comments

Kenshi, I think that instead of asking Manoj to use something as archaic as 7bit (heh, older than Manoj himself? :)), we should fix Unicode support in debian once and for all!

Posted by Tincho at 2007/03/22 (Thu) 09:03:52

Tincho,
Yeah, Unicode will be one of solutions, but unfortunately some MUAs and editors haven't supported it yet.
MUA and editor are one of things in the world that senior users won't change :)

Posted by kmuto at 2007/03/22 (Thu) 09:08:29
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