Re: smtpmail and ~/.authinfo

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Ted Zlatanov <address@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2011 14:40:07 -0500
> 
> On Mon, 26 Sep 2011 22:34:21 +0300 Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote: 
> 
> >> From: Ted Zlatanov <address@hidden>
> >> Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2011 14:22:36 -0500
> >> 
> >> I believe random bytes can be encoded just fine by UTF-8.
> 
> EZ> No, they cannot.  A given sequence of "random bytes" can be a valid
> EZ> UTF-8 encoding of some character with a sufficiently large code point.
> 
> But that's not what I said :) They can be *encoded* to a UTF-8 sequence
> than can be eventually decoded back from UTF-8.

No.  Some byte sequences are invalid UTF-8, and are decoded into a
single special character.  IOW, what you suggest is in general lossy
conversion.