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Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh architecture discussion: format engine character s
From: |
Anthony J. Bentley |
Subject: |
Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh architecture discussion: format engine character set |
Date: |
Tue, 11 Aug 2015 11:08:45 -0600 |
Hi,
Earl Hood writes:
> Some general comments about this discussion:
>
> - Message should be stored in their original forms. I.e. The
> character encoding transformation should only be done for
> display/access purposes.
>
> Main reasons:
> - Protects against bugs in encoding transformation code. The
> original message is always left untouched.
> - Maintains compatibility with folks that use external tools and
> scripts to access nmh messages.
> - Avoids invalidating any digital signatures since any
> modification of the message will invalidate them.
>
> If there is a desire to support transformation of incoming mail, so
> mail is stored in "normalized form", then it should be a configurable
> option. I personally would not want all my stored email converted to
> UTF-8 due to reasons cited above.
Not to take things too far off-topic, but in my wild imaginings I've
wondered how practical it would be to implement a mail client that
used a mh mail store as a base to expose a filesystem (maybe over FUSE
or 9P) that contains individual messages as decoded UTF-8 text files,
and sub-hierarchies as necessary for attachments/MIME, however that
would work.
It seems like a lot of room for error in implementation. But talk about
satisfying the Unix philosophy...
--
Anthony J. Bentley
- Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh architecture discussion: format engine character set, (continued)
- Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh architecture discussion: format engine character set, Earl Hood, 2015/08/11
- Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh architecture discussion: format engine character set, Jon Steinhart, 2015/08/11
- Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh architecture discussion: format engine character set, Ken Hornstein, 2015/08/11
- Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh architecture discussion: format engine character set, Ralph Corderoy, 2015/08/12
- Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh architecture discussion: format engine character set, Ken Hornstein, 2015/08/12
- Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh architecture discussion: format engine character set, Ralph Corderoy, 2015/08/12
- Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh architecture discussion: format engine character set, Earl Hood, 2015/08/11
- Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh architecture discussion: format engine character set,
Anthony J. Bentley <=
- Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh architecture discussion: format engine character set, Earl Hood, 2015/08/11
- Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh architecture discussion: format engine character set, Lyndon Nerenberg, 2015/08/11
- Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh architecture discussion: format engine character set, Ken Hornstein, 2015/08/11
- Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh architecture discussion: format engine character set, Ralph Corderoy, 2015/08/12
- Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh architecture discussion: format engine character set, Lyndon Nerenberg, 2015/08/11
- Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh architecture discussion: format engine character set, Ken Hornstein, 2015/08/11
- Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh architecture discussion: format engine character set, Jon Steinhart, 2015/08/11
- Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh architecture discussion: format engine character set, Paul Fox, 2015/08/11
- Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh architecture discussion: format engine character set, Lyndon Nerenberg, 2015/08/11
- Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh architecture discussion: format engine character set, Ken Hornstein, 2015/08/12