Re: Message forwarding annoyance and message-forward-show-mml

[Shenghuo ZHU <zsh@cs.rochester.edu>]

Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@iskon.hr> writes:

> Shenghuo ZHU <zsh@cs.rochester.edu> writes:
> 
> > What is the definition of the *raw* message?
> 
> Un-decoded, un-MML-ified, the way it is seen in the mailbox or
> delivered by NNTP.
> 
> > What if the original message contains non-ASCII characters or other
> > base64- or qp-encoded parts?
> 
> Leave base64 and qp parts as they are.  Non-ASCII characters should
> also be left as they are (their octet values unchanged), making sure
> that no additional (en|de)coding happens.

I recall the problem in forwarding an 8-bit-encoded message.  The
8-bit raw text (esp. koi8-r and utf-8) might not be safe in an
Emacs/MULE multibyte buffer. That's why the original text is put into
an external buffer.

Shenghuo