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 branch Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2008 06:21:01 +0300 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> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1220325679 2049 80.91.229.12 (2 Sep 2008 03:21:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2008 03:21:19 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, evilborisnet@netscape.net To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 02 05:22:14 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 1KaMT6-0007Aa-4o for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 02 Sep 2008 05:22:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54900 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KaMS7-00061Y-0a for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 01 Sep 2008 23:21:11 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KaMS2-0005z5-GI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Sep 2008 23:21:06 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KaMS0-0005xl-8I for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Sep 2008 23:21:05 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=45772 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KaMS0-0005xR-0E for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Sep 2008 23:21:04 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout1.012.net.il ([84.95.2.1]:45563) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KaMRz-0001iX-OU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Sep 2008 23:21:03 -0400 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.229.211.50]) by i-mtaout1.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0K6J00CX2TC6A3W0@i-mtaout1.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Sep 2008 06:21:42 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: 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:103408 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Monnier > Cc: Evil Boris , 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.