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[Pan-users] Re: [0.127] yenc decoding bug?
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walt |
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[Pan-users] Re: [0.127] yenc decoding bug? |
Date: |
Sun, 15 Apr 2007 05:49:58 +0000 (UTC) |
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Pan/0.127 (Eckythump) |
On Sun, 15 Apr 2007 03:21:47 +0000, SciFi wrote:
> On Sun, 15 Apr 2007 01:06:17 +0000, walt wrote:
>> ...I notice that the new Save As :: Actions drop-down menu includes
>> three choices rather than two -- the
>> third choice being one that I personally would never use under any
>> condition I can think of at the moment: 'Save Attachments & Text'.
>>
>> Charles, was there a request for that third combined option? I'm
>> curious to know why someone would need it.
> fwiw that third option was ‘the’ one way to possibly work around the
> utf8 problems we were having in bug #424381. I definitely say we need
> to keep that option – we could try feeding the post into external utils
> such as uudeview for processing in case we get stuck again for any
> reason.
As long as I'm making demands on poor Charles: for similar reasons I'd
like to be able to display the 'Uncooked' post with the Ctrl-U command
as implemented in the mozilla family of programs.
> What’s more, it’d be even better to have a “Save as-is” option to write
> the post exactly to a file without /any/ processing whatsoever
> /including/ charset translations & MIME separators etc. i.e. exactly as
> fetched from the NNTP server in its entirety. Caching (saving each post
> separately into the article-cache) would involve knowing how to locate
> the Message-ID, and you’d need to do so one message-post at a time…
> “Save as-is” could write the whole thread of posts in chained order for
> cases that need to feed them into third-party (external to pan2) utils,
> say for ex. yet another new encoding scheme that replaces
> yEnc/uuencode/MIME/etc.
+1 from me. (Sorry to be piling on, Charles, but I like the idea :o)
> (p.s. I’m using this post to test typographic characters, in case it
> looks strange on your ends ;) )
Just FYI, the open-quote chars you are using are rendered correctly in
Thunderbird, but are instead rendered as close-quote chars in pan.
I'd welcome any blows from the clue-stick about this difference ;o)
- [Pan-users] [0.127] yenc decoding bug?, walt, 2007/04/13
- Re: [Pan-users] [0.127] yenc decoding bug?, Charles Kerr, 2007/04/14
- [Pan-users] Re: [0.127] yenc decoding bug?, walt, 2007/04/14
- Re: [Pan-users] Re: [0.127] yenc decoding bug?, Charles Kerr, 2007/04/14
- [Pan-users] Re: [0.127] yenc decoding bug?, Duncan, 2007/04/14
- [Pan-users] Re: [0.127] yenc decoding bug?, walt, 2007/04/14
- [Pan-users] Re: [0.127] yenc decoding bug?, SciFi, 2007/04/14
- [Pan-users] Re: [0.127] yenc decoding bug?,
walt <=
- Re: [Pan-users] Re: [0.127] yenc decoding bug?, Charles Kerr, 2007/04/15
- [Pan-users] Re: [0.127] yenc decoding bug?, walt, 2007/04/16
- Re: [Pan-users] Re: [0.127] yenc decoding bug?, Charles Kerr, 2007/04/15
- Re: [Pan-users] Re: [0.127] yenc decoding bug?, Charles Kerr, 2007/04/15