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31.0.50; Gnus or message.el doesn't handle international message reply subject prefixes and insults users

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From: Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com>
To: Björn Bidar <bjorn.bidar <at> thaodan.de>
Cc: 72442 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Subject: bug#72442: 31.0.50; Gnus or message.el doesn't handle international message reply subject prefixes and insults users
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2025 18:25:21 +0100

>>>>> On Thu, 13 Feb 2025 19:21:32 +0200, Björn Bidar <bjorn.bidar <at> thaodan.de> said:

    Björn> The message manual is still tell insulting users and/or is inaccurate now:

    >> ‘message-subject-re-regexp’
    >> Responses to messages have subjects that start with ‘Re: ’.  This
    >> is _not_ an abbreviation of the English word “response”, but it
    >> comes from the Latin “res”, and means “in the matter of”.  Some
    >> illiterate nincompoops have failed to grasp this fact, and have
    >> “internationalized” their software to use abominations like ‘Aw: ’
    >> (“antwort”) or ‘Sv: ’ (“svar”) instead, which is meaningless and
    >> evil.  However, you may have to deal with users that use these evil
    >> tools, in which case you may set this variable to a regexp that
    >> matches these prefixes.  Myself, I just throw away non-compliant
    >> mail.

    Björn> (info "(message) Message Headers")

That text is slightly different now, but Iʼm not going to bowdlerize
it further.

Robert
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