Re: Emacs 22 branch created.

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 22:12:45 +0200
> From: Henrik Enberg <address@hidden>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>, address@hidden
> 
> Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:
> > >   * At the moment, it is slightly worse than current Rmail when it comes
> > >     to non-ascii support.  One of the major points of moving to the mbox
> > >     format is to be compatible with external tools, and that rules out
> > >     storing mailboxes in emacs-mule form, which old Rmail does.  I'm
> > >     still not sure what the best approach here would be here.  UTF-8?
> > >     Raw text?
> > 
> > The mailbox should not be decoded, most likely.
> > The decoding should only happen when displaying a message.
> 
> Yes, that's what it does, but we need to write messages to the mailbox
> too.

Then encode it and make it look like mbox.  E.g., a message in French
would be encoded to Latin-1 or Latin-9.