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Re: Is EBCDIC support gone?
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From: Daniel Stenberg via curl-library <curl-library_at_lists.haxx.se>
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2022 17:40:52 +0200 (CEST)
On Thu, 21 Jul 2022, David Woodhouse wrote:
>> I'm not following. In what aspect does curl care about non-ASCII content or
>> character sets at all?
>
> Passwords and passphrases, input on the command line or '-d _at_postdata'?
Yeah, I suppose you could say that it *should* care about character sets in
some of those cases but it doesn't and it never did. It presumes the user
passes on exactly what it wants to pass on.
> And ew, I still have to *tell* curl that the file it is looking at is a
> PKCS#12 file, because it doesn't work that out for itself :(
Correct. Nobody taught it how to do that.
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2022 17:40:52 +0200 (CEST)
On Thu, 21 Jul 2022, David Woodhouse wrote:
>> I'm not following. In what aspect does curl care about non-ASCII content or
>> character sets at all?
>
> Passwords and passphrases, input on the command line or '-d _at_postdata'?
Yeah, I suppose you could say that it *should* care about character sets in
some of those cases but it doesn't and it never did. It presumes the user
passes on exactly what it wants to pass on.
> And ew, I still have to *tell* curl that the file it is looking at is a
> PKCS#12 file, because it doesn't work that out for itself :(
Correct. Nobody taught it how to do that.
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