[Date Prev][Date Next] [Thread Prev][Thread Next] [Date Index] [Thread Index]

Re: Emacsen MUA



On Sat, 13 Dec 2003, J. wrote:
> Daniel Pittman <daniel@rimspace.net> writes:
> 
>>> Does a message necessarily need to be MIME when it uses
>>> non-ascii characters?
>>
>> Yes. :)
>>
>> Seriously, email without MIME is defined to be US-ASCII 7-bit only in
>> the standards.  Most mailers pass 8-bit these days, but not all, and
>> without a MIME type you can't trust the eighth bit to mean what you
>> intended for all your readers.
> 
> You are right. When MIME was mentioned, I had in mind multipart
> messages but this is something else.
> 
> Thanks for remind this.

*nod*  Speaking of MIME, I must apologize for mangling your name in the
last message.  Gnus used to do this right, and didn't in the last
message, so this is kind of a test...

         Daniel

-- 
What was once called the objective world is a sort of Rorschach ink blot,
into which each culture, each system of science and religion, each type of
personality, reads a meaning only remotely derived from the shape and color
of the blot itself.
        -- Lewis Mumford



Reply to: