Re: [9fans] mime

["Boyd Roberts" <boyd@planete.net>]

From: <rog@vitanuova.com>

> ...it would be nice
> if we could convert the whole thing from utf initially, but some
> people have a habit of sending latin1 which of course translates as
> lots of broken utf runes (and presumably utf translates as broken
> latin1 on many machines).

that's how it goes. je déconne pas...

did you see the e acute?

> i don't think that the header is allowed 8 bit stuff no matter what.

yes, hence that hideous ?...? encoding crap.

> is the idea that if we just send utf regardless, sooner or later
> mailers will assume that 8bit chars in mail headers are utf?

bit of a circular problem; the headers specify the encoding
which you don't know until you've read the headers.  it's
been hard enough to get 1 extra bit through [the 8th bit]
without stomping all over rfc 822.

> i might hack up a version of marshal that conforms to the standards,
> at least superficially.  it would be nice to be able to send mail that
> people on other platforms could read. we're not so far away.

i'm not sure you want to do that.  it's a mimefield.