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To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] pipeto.lib spool and encoding
From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 14:22:57 -0400
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> 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