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: Emacs 22 branch created. Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 00:16:14 +0300 Message-ID: References: <462E7B94.3000008@gnu.org> <462F0A07.50104@gnu.org> <864pn4an8j.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> <86zm4w97du.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> <20070425195026.GA19472@printf.se> <20070425201245.GA23181@printf.se> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1177535789 5369 80.91.229.12 (25 Apr 2007 21:16:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 21:16:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Henrik Enberg Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 25 23:16:21 2007 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 1HgoqZ-0007tp-F7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 25 Apr 2007 23:16:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HgowE-0001zk-4m for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 25 Apr 2007 17:22:10 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HgowB-0001zf-Te for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Apr 2007 17:22:07 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hgow9-0001zT-IU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Apr 2007 17:22:06 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hgow9-0001zQ-CA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Apr 2007 17:22:05 -0400 Original-Received: from nitzan.inter.net.il ([213.8.233.22]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HgoqT-0001XM-Mw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Apr 2007 17:16:13 -0400 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-84-229-247-107.inter.net.il [84.229.247.107]) by nitzan.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.3a-GA) with ESMTP id GPJ07169 (AUTH halo1); Thu, 26 Apr 2007 00:16:13 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <20070425201245.GA23181@printf.se> (message from Henrik Enberg on Wed, 25 Apr 2007 22:12:45 +0200) X-detected-kernel: FreeBSD 4.7-5.2 (or MacOS X 10.2-10.4) (2) 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:70135 Archived-At: > Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 22:12:45 +0200 > From: Henrik Enberg > Cc: Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel@gnu.org > > Stefan Monnier writes: > > > * At the moment, it is slightly worse than current Rmail when it comes > > > to non-ascii support. One of the major points of moving to the mbox > > > format is to be compatible with external tools, and that rules out > > > storing mailboxes in emacs-mule form, which old Rmail does. I'm > > > still not sure what the best approach here would be here. UTF-8? > > > Raw text? > > > > The mailbox should not be decoded, most likely. > > The decoding should only happen when displaying a message. > > Yes, that's what it does, but we need to write messages to the mailbox > too. Then encode it and make it look like mbox. E.g., a message in French would be encoded to Latin-1 or Latin-9.