From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@elta.co.il>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: RMAIL, MIME clean-up, coding system
Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2003 00:49:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8296-Wed08Oct2003004931+0200-eliz@elta.co.il> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200310072136.h97La6dL004066@oak.pohoyda.family> (message from Alexander Pohoyda on Tue, 7 Oct 2003 23:36:06 +0200 (CEST))
> Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2003 23:36:06 +0200 (CEST)
> From: Alexander Pohoyda <alexander.pohoyda@gmx.net>
>
> > > Using a message-global X-Coding-System header field is not an option
> > > anymore.
> >
> > Sorry, I don't see why not; we could, for example, use emacs-mule,
> > right?
>
> What do we do when we save an email to the file?
We encode it in emacs-mule (reagrdless of what X-Coding-System
says). This is so with Emacs today.
> Am I right that the
> file encoded using emacs-mule will only be readable by Emacs?
The ASCII parts will be readable, unlike base64, for example.
> > Yuck! (Sorry, couldn't resist: I _hate_ encodings that aren't
> > readable by humans outside specialized software.)
>
> Do you mean base64 or emacs-mule encoding here?
base64, of course. In too many cases, it makes human-readable text
incomprehensible. We should at least allow to read the 7-bit ASCII.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-10-07 22:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <200310051053.h95ArIwj001185@oak.pohoyda.family>
2003-10-07 21:20 ` RMAIL, MIME clean-up, coding system Eli Zaretskii
2003-10-07 21:36 ` Alexander Pohoyda
2003-10-07 22:49 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2003-10-07 21:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-10-07 22:33 ` Alexander Pohoyda
2003-10-07 23:02 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-10-07 22:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-10-07 23:04 ` Stefan Monnier
[not found] <200310080542.h985gNkp000541@oak.pohoyda.family>
2003-10-09 14:44 ` Richard Stallman
2003-10-12 20:33 ` Alexander Pohoyda
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