[OT] western cultural imperialism at vger?

YOSHIFUJI Hideaki [off-list ref] writes:

In article [off-list ref] (at Wed, 21 Dec 2005 14:52:59 -0800), Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] says:

quoted

This is the second reply to Yoshifuji-san today that did not
come back to me from the list (but I did get it back from my ISP
due to BCCing myself), so I am resending.

I got all of them; with and without my Japanese name on To:.

Your "oops this is the corrected patch" message appeared in my
mailbox only once, which suggests vger discarded it.  It does
not appear on marc nor gmane archive either.

It seems to me that vger drops messages whose content-type is
"text/plain; charset=iso-2022-jp"; this western cultural
imperialism is inexcusable -- the list accepts iso-8859-1 just
fine, so it is not like it is us-ascii only.  It just does not
like iso-2022-jp.

Nah, I am just joking about the "imperialism" part, but I think
that is what is happening.

Most of your messages, although you have your Japanese name on
the From: header line, are charset=us-ascii, and indeed the body
of them are us-ascii only, and is flowing on the list just fine.
The "oops this is the corrected patch" message from you was done
as a reply to your own message, which started with something
like this (Japanese omitted for obvious reasons):

    In article [off-list ref] (at Wed, 21 Dec 2005 19:23:42 +0900 (JST)), YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / [J][J][J][J] [off-list ref] says:

    > Hello.
    > 
    > Allow address enclosed by [] in URLs, like:
    >    git push '[3ffe:ffff:...:1]:GIT/git'
    > or
    >    git push 'ssh://[3ffe:ffff:...:1]/GIT/git'
    > 
    > Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki [off-list ref]

    oops, this is not correct. Please use this instead.

Which made your MUA to send it in iso-2022-jp, and I suspect
that is why I saw it only once, direct delivery.

From: Junio C Hamano <redacted>
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 15:24:39 -0800

It seems to me that vger drops messages whose content-type is
"text/plain; charset=iso-2022-jp"; this western cultural
imperialism is inexcusable -- the list accepts iso-8859-1 just
fine, so it is not like it is us-ascii only.  It just does not
like iso-2022-jp.

No, we filter for certain multibyte characters.

If you can teach Matti Aarnio and myself how to speak Japanese,
Korean, Russian, and Chinese, and thus be able to build proper
regexp's for SPAM in those languages, we'll happily do it.