From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] pipeto.lib spool and encoding
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 14:22:57 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0afc8122a7dc55a4b1b07666ef3fd5d3@quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ee9e417a0710191107v41e4c0acwe3b234c2532451dd@mail.gmail.com>
> most plan 9 tools are used on the upas presentation of a mailbox,
> which *is* in utf-8. very few tools operate directly on the 8-bit
> mail message. pipeto.lib is one of the few, and even there it
> just works to get its input into an mbox and then invokes upas/fs.
>
> attempting to perform any conversion of the raw message is a mistake.
> you're almost guaranteed to lose some information, and with little
> to no benefit (thanks to everything using upas/fs to access mail).
is there anything in the incoming charset that is useful? what
distinguishes it from noise?
- erik
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-19 18:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-16 16:01 Matthias Teege
2007-10-18 20:10 ` Russ Cox
2007-10-18 21:07 ` erik quanstrom
2007-10-19 18:07 ` Russ Cox
2007-10-19 18:22 ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2007-10-18 22:22 ` Steve Simon
2007-10-18 22:34 ` geoff
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