From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, evilborisnet@netscape.net
Subject: Re: Rmail-mbox branch
Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2008 06:21:01 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <uljyb8c82.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvd4jn8wvw.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: Evil Boris <evilborisnet@netscape.net>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2008 15:57:50 -0400
>
> >> 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.
Yes, but that's the same decoding we do today, and the fact mbox
should do it more than once doesn't make it less correct.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-02 3:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 89+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-11 18:05 Rmail-mbox branch Chong Yidong
2008-06-30 12:20 ` Paul Michael Reilly
2008-06-30 13:06 ` Chong Yidong
2008-06-30 13:50 ` Paul Michael Reilly
2008-06-30 13:59 ` Miles Bader
2008-06-30 15:57 ` Stefan Monnier
[not found] ` <4868F9F0.2060408@pajato.com>
2008-06-30 18:29 ` Miles Bader
2008-06-30 16:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-06-30 17:48 ` Paul Michael Reilly
2008-07-03 21:56 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-08-18 5:15 ` Paul Michael Reilly
2008-08-18 6:01 ` Miles Bader
2008-08-18 6:05 ` Paul Michael Reilly
2008-08-18 6:52 ` Miles Bader
2008-08-18 12:18 ` Paul Michael Reilly
2008-08-29 7:04 ` Glenn Morris
2008-08-31 4:27 ` Paul Michael Reilly
2008-08-31 18:50 ` Chong Yidong
2008-08-31 19:15 ` Evil Boris
2008-09-01 3:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-09-01 11:46 ` Evil Boris
2008-09-01 19:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-09-01 19:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-09-02 3:21 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2008-09-01 23:46 ` Evil Boris
2008-09-02 2:38 ` Evil Boris
2008-09-02 3:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-09-02 11:53 ` Evil Boris
2008-09-03 20:12 ` Paul Michael Reilly
2008-09-02 14:13 ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-09-03 2:46 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-09-03 4:41 ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-09-03 6:28 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-09-04 0:10 ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-09-04 2:26 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-09-04 7:03 ` Paul Michael Reilly
2008-09-04 8:44 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-09-04 13:58 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-09-04 21:58 ` Paul Michael Reilly
2008-09-04 15:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-09-04 22:00 ` Paul Michael Reilly
2008-09-05 2:20 ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-09-05 5:33 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-09-06 21:05 ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-09-08 4:57 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-09-08 8:36 ` Francesco Potorti`
2008-09-08 9:53 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-09-08 13:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-09-09 1:58 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-09-08 19:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-09-08 16:42 ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-09-08 17:55 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-09-09 2:54 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-09-09 14:11 ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-09-10 9:10 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-09-10 11:43 ` Paul Michael Reilly
2008-09-10 12:23 ` tomas
2008-09-10 17:55 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-09-11 2:39 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-09-10 15:07 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-09-03 16:08 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-09-03 19:56 ` Paul Michael Reilly
2008-09-04 0:45 ` Kenichi Handa
2008-09-04 4:35 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-09-04 2:36 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-09-04 7:27 ` Paul Michael Reilly
2008-09-02 3:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-09-01 6:11 ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-09-01 8:42 ` Francesco Potorti`
2008-09-01 11:25 ` Evil Boris
2008-09-01 19:39 ` Paul Michael Reilly
2008-09-01 20:20 ` Chong Yidong
2008-09-01 20:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-09-02 1:09 ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-09-02 3:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-09-03 2:41 ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-09-03 3:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-09-03 19:46 ` Paul Michael Reilly
2008-09-03 20:20 ` Chong Yidong
2008-09-03 23:37 ` Glenn Morris
2008-09-04 0:10 ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-09-02 19:17 ` Paul Michael Reilly
2008-09-01 1:06 ` Glenn Morris
2008-09-01 19:19 ` Paul Michael Reilly
2008-08-19 4:31 ` Chong Yidong
2008-08-19 7:15 ` Paul Michael Reilly
2008-08-20 16:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-08-21 13:55 ` Paul Michael Reilly
2008-08-27 15:47 ` Stefan Monnier
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