From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Rmail/mbox decoding Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2008 22:29:58 +0300 Message-ID: References: <48BD47E3.4030300@pajato.com> <48BD8AED.209@pajato.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1220384419 30249 80.91.229.12 (2 Sep 2008 19:40:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2008 19:40:19 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, handa@m17n.org To: Paul Michael Reilly Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 02 21:41:14 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 1KabkX-0004On-GV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 02 Sep 2008 21:41:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35334 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KabjX-0001NV-WB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 02 Sep 2008 15:40:12 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KabZx-0005uC-AK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Sep 2008 15:30:17 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KabZw-0005tI-9N for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Sep 2008 15:30:16 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=40011 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KabZv-0005t1-01 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Sep 2008 15:30:15 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout1.012.net.il ([84.95.2.1]:25520) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KabZu-0004xw-SW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Sep 2008 15:30:15 -0400 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.229.211.50]) by i-mtaout1.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0K6L007X8272WCC0@i-mtaout1.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Sep 2008 22:30:39 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <48BD8AED.209@pajato.com> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 9.1 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:103437 Archived-At: > Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2008 14:50:21 -0400 > From: Paul Michael Reilly > CC: handa@m17n.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org > > Eli Zaretskii wrote: > >> Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2008 10:04:19 -0400 > >> From: Paul Michael Reilly > >> 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.