bogofilter-0.95.2 - new current release

Matthias Andree matthias.andree at gmx.de
Sat Jul 2 12:17:14 CEST 2005


Boris 'pi' Piwinger <3.14 at piology.org> writes:

> David Relson <relson at osagesoftware.com> wrote:
>
>>	  - default configuration:
>>	    . bogofilter auto-detects whether database is using
>>	      unicode (utf-8) or not.
>>	    . bogofilter uses unicode when creating new databases.
>>	    . bogoutil preserves unicode/non-unicode stat during
>>	      dump/load.
>>	    . bogofilter, bogolexer, and bogoutil have "--unicode=yes/no"
>>	      options which permit user selectable modes for experimenting, 
>>	      testing, and wordlist conversion.
>
> So when I build a new database I will never need those
> options. So is there any other use-case for the options than
> translating a database or not using unicode at all?

Indeed I consider them mostly ballast. --unicode=no MAY be interesting
in failover situations where a backup machine is ancient and has no
Unicode capabilities, in such setups the primary machine would do good
to NOT use Unicode. Otherwise, I can't currently think of any.

-- 
Matthias Andree



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