From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Rmail-mbox branch Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2008 15:57:50 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87zlprvod0.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <4868CF84.1040005@pajato.com> <48A90589.4020804@pajato.com> <48A91146.60200@pajato.com> <48A968A3.8050806@pajato.com> <48BA1DAE.2030005@pajato.com> <874p51xblf.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> <84od39q9mv.fsf@boris.laptop> <84abesum0g.fsf@boris.laptop> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1220299103 1888 80.91.229.12 (1 Sep 2008 19:58:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2008 19:58:23 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Evil Boris To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 01 21:59:17 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KaFYM-0006ht-0d for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 01 Sep 2008 21:59:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:43914 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KaFXL-0004re-NB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 01 Sep 2008 15:58:07 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KaFXH-0004qY-KG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Sep 2008 15:58:03 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KaFXG-0004q1-1X for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Sep 2008 15:58:03 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=45060 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KaFXF-0004px-NN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Sep 2008 15:58:01 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.182]:54221) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KaFX8-0002gJ-ME; Mon, 01 Sep 2008 15:57:55 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ApMFAKDmu0hFxJrH/2dsb2JhbACBZbFSgWmBBw X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.32,309,1217822400"; d="scan'208";a="26194819" Original-Received: from 69-196-154-199.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO ceviche.home) ([69.196.154.199]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP; 01 Sep 2008 15:57:51 -0400 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 011C7B41E9; Mon, 1 Sep 2008 15:57:50 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Mon, 01 Sep 2008 22:19:03 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:103390 Archived-At: >> I guess in absense of such support (and hoping etach or equivalent will >> magically support mbox format :-), my main concern would be handling of >> different character sets (Unicode, ISO-8859-x, KOI8-R, are most popular) >> in plain text msgs, so that I can see the text without jumping through >> hoops. > I don't see why the mbox branch would support this any worse than the > trunk. The decoding stuff is pretty much stable and well understood, > after so many releases. IIIUC the differnece is that BABYL is encoded using emacs-mule, whereas mbox needs to stick to the standard rfc2822+MIME format. So BABYL can be decoded in place once and forall, whereas mbox needs to be decoded upon display, more or less. Stefan