Rmail/mbox decoding

Rmail/mbox decoding

[Paul Michael Reilly]

One of the issues that Rmail/mbox needs to address is how to handle the 
content type decoding in order to display a message correctly.  Is this 
a sufficient question in order for you to weigh in and help us determine 
what the correct thing to do is?

Thanks,

-pmr

Re: Rmail/mbox decoding

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2008 10:04:19 -0400
> From: Paul Michael Reilly <pmr@pajato.com>
> Cc: 
> 
> One of the issues that Rmail/mbox needs to address is how to handle the 
> content type decoding in order to display a message correctly.

What is different between what Rmail/mbox needs to do and what Rmail
does on the trunk now?

Re: Rmail/mbox decoding

[Paul Michael Reilly]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2008 10:04:19 -0400
>> From: Paul Michael Reilly <pmr@pajato.com>
>> Cc: 
>>
>> One of the issues that Rmail/mbox needs to address is how to handle the 
>> content type decoding in order to display a message correctly.
> 
> What is different between what Rmail/mbox needs to do and what Rmail
> does on the trunk now?

It's my understanding that Rmail/babyl uses Mule whereas Rmail/mbox does 
not and that this is the root of the issue.  And that is about as deep 
as my understanding goes ... at least right now.

-pmr

Re: Rmail/mbox decoding

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2008 14:50:21 -0400
> From: Paul Michael Reilly <pmr@pajato.com>
> CC: handa@m17n.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >> Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2008 10:04:19 -0400
> >> From: Paul Michael Reilly <pmr@pajato.com>
> >> Cc: 
> >>
> >> One of the issues that Rmail/mbox needs to address is how to handle the 
> >> content type decoding in order to display a message correctly.
> > 
> > What is different between what Rmail/mbox needs to do and what Rmail
> > does on the trunk now?
> 
> It's my understanding that Rmail/babyl uses Mule whereas Rmail/mbox does 
> not and that this is the root of the issue.

If by "uses Mule" you mean decoding non-ASCII text, then that's the
only way of decoding and encoding text in Emacs.  If Rmail/mbox wants
to be able to display non-ASCII text (and I'm sure it wants), it's
_got_ to "use Mule" for that.  Just like Rmail/Babyl does already.

Re: Rmail/mbox decoding

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Paul Michael Reilly writes:

 > It's my understanding that Rmail/babyl uses Mule whereas Rmail/mbox does 
 > not and that this is the root of the issue.  And that is about as deep 
 > as my understanding goes ... at least right now.

Ouch.  If that is true, this feature is definitely not ready for
landing until you get a review from somebody who understands Mule and
email.  Any of the Gnus guys, Simon Josefsson, Daiki Ueno, et al.