From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Rmail changes for Emacs 22 Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 08:33:02 +0200 Organization: University of Dortmund, Germany Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <84iszvvv8h.fsf@crybaby.cs.uni-dortmund.de> References: <200210201940.g9KJeqW12529@rum.cs.yale.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035274950 14937 80.91.224.249 (22 Oct 2002 08:22:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 08:22:30 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 183uJ2-0003sc-00 for ; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 10:22:28 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 183uK9-0002W4-00 for ; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 10:23:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 183uJ9-0005Om-00; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 04:22:35 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 183uHk-0004dU-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 04:21:08 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 183uHh-0004cC-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 04:21:06 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.224.249]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 183uHg-0004c0-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 04:21:04 -0400 Original-Received: from root by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 183uGh-0003eV-00 for ; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 10:20:03 +0200 Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Received: from news by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 183tvF-0001Vi-00 for ; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 09:57:53 +0200 Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Lines: 17 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: crybaby.uni-duisburg.de Original-X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035273473 5275 134.91.30.116 (22 Oct 2002 07:57:53 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 07:57:53 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.3.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Cancel-Lock: sha1:bIK5O9k5jUJYzNlBr6XP3xPnpeI= Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:8643 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:8643 Richard Stallman writes: > That probably means that the format should be "whatever was received". > I.e. the mail-reader should never encode anything (only the mail-sender > should do that). > > It is impossible to display the message text without decoding it from > whatever coding system it is encoded in. I think that's what Eli meant: an incoming message is already encoded in some way, and Eli suggested to just leave it like that and to decode on viewing. (Only a Content-Type header might have to be added or changed so that Rmail knows which encoding is used in the message.) kai -- ~/.signature is: umop ap!sdn (Frank Nobis)