clutch

[Chris F Waigl]

Mark A. Mandel wrote:
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> Chris Waigl wrote:
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> In a nutshell, the information about what character set / encoding a
> message is in is contained in one of the message headers. Now the
> problem arises where to put the information about the charset of message
> headers themselves: when the mail application reads the headers, it
> doesn't yet have this information at its disposal. So this ugly clutch
> is what people came up with.
>
> <<<
>
> I assume that "clutch" here is what American technogeeks call a /klu:dZ/,
> usually spelled "kludge" even though it rhymes with "stooge", not with
> "fudge" /f^dZ/.
>
>

Damn.

Chris Waigl
"kludge" of course

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