From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Eli Zaretskii" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: RMAIL, MIME clean-up, coding system Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2003 00:49:31 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <8296-Wed08Oct2003004931+0200-eliz@elta.co.il> References: <200310051053.h95ArIwj001185@oak.pohoyda.family> <1659-Tue07Oct2003232035+0200-eliz@elta.co.il> <200310072136.h97La6dL004066@oak.pohoyda.family> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1065569142 490 80.91.224.253 (7 Oct 2003 23:25:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2003 23:25:42 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 08 01:25:41 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1A71D3-0004GF-00 for ; Wed, 08 Oct 2003 01:25:41 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1A71D2-00033B-00 for ; Wed, 08 Oct 2003 01:25:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1A717g-0001rG-Pp for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Tue, 07 Oct 2003 19:20:08 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1A715Q-0000cL-52 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Oct 2003 19:17:48 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1A714V-0007L1-Oh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Oct 2003 19:17:22 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.114.186.18] (helo=bilbo.inter.net.il) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1A714T-0007JN-GS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Oct 2003 19:16:49 -0400 Original-Received: from zaretski ([80.230.148.47]) by bilbo.inter.net.il (Mirapoint Messaging Server MOS 3.3.7-GR) with ESMTP id BPD94252; Wed, 8 Oct 2003 00:53:33 +0200 (IST) Original-To: Alexander Pohoyda X-Mailer: emacs 21.3.50 (via feedmail 8 I) and Blat ver 1.8.9 In-reply-to: <200310072136.h97La6dL004066@oak.pohoyda.family> (message from Alexander Pohoyda on Tue, 7 Oct 2003 23:36:06 +0200 (CEST)) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:16996 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:16996 > Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2003 23:36:06 +0200 (CEST) > From: Alexander Pohoyda > > > > 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.