Re: GNATS and MIME

[Yngve Svendsen]

At 20:09 20.02.2001 +0100, Milan Zamazal wrote:
> Though the presented Perl script can serve as an acceptably good
> workaround for some sites, it's necessary to find a real solution
> sometimes.  I think GNATS should handle non-ASCII e-mails, in both
> directions, itself.  However the issue is non-trivial, when solving it
> we should probably not limit GNATS to 8-bit encodings and should work on
> it together with overall GNATS internationalization.
>
> I'm personally not going to solve the problem until GNATS 4 is released.

I agree. This needs to find a better solution, and the Perl script is no 
more than acceptable. It might not be too much work, since fairly good 
library functions shouldexist for this kind of thing. I really wish I was a 
stronger programmer.

But let this serve as an invitation to everyone with a bit of free time on 
their hands to join us.

- Yngve