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Re: Rmail-mbox branch
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Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
Re: Rmail-mbox branch |
Date: |
Mon, 01 Sep 2008 15:57:50 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) |
>> 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.
Stefan
- Re: Rmail-mbox branch, Richard M. Stallman, 2008/09/01
- Re: Rmail-mbox branch, Evil Boris, 2008/09/01
- Re: Rmail-mbox branch, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/09/01
- Re: Rmail-mbox branch, Evil Boris, 2008/09/01
- Re: Rmail-mbox branch, Evil Boris, 2008/09/01
- Re: Rmail-mbox branch, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/09/01
- Re: Rmail-mbox branch, Evil Boris, 2008/09/02
- Re: Rmail-mbox branch, Paul Michael Reilly, 2008/09/03
- Re: Rmail-mbox branch, Richard M. Stallman, 2008/09/02
- Re: Rmail-mbox branch, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2008/09/02
- Re: Rmail-mbox branch, Richard M. Stallman, 2008/09/03
- Re: Rmail-mbox branch, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2008/09/03