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From: Kai Grossjohann <kai@emptydomain.de>
Subject: Re: elisp encoding
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 12:27:54 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <868ye5z6fp.fsf@rumba.de.uu.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cbttc8$eop$2@quimby.gnus.org>

Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org> writes:

> I don't know why the part was modified into quoted-printable
> from 8bit, but it may be doing of MTAs.  What Ilya and I wanted
> to say is why ShengHuo changed it so that the `CTE: 8bit' is
> used when a part contains long lines even if there's no
> non-ascii text.  I cannot find out the necessity.
>
> --=-=-=
> Content-Type: application/emacs-lisp
> Content-Disposition: inline
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
>
> (setq t nil) (setq t nil) (setq t nil) (setq t nil) (setq t nil) (setq t nil)

I think it makes sense to use qp encoding for long lines, by breaking
them with the "= at end of line" trick.

That would explain why CTE qp might be useful.  Perhaps someone
overlooked this when they changed from qp to 8bit?

Kai



  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-06-30 10:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <ufu0wuicqb.fsf@d-fens.mopniei.ru>
2004-06-30  5:50 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2004-06-30  6:09   ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2004-06-30  8:24     ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2004-06-30 15:12       ` Ilya N. Golubev
     [not found]     ` <cbttc8$eop$2@quimby.gnus.org>
2004-06-30 10:27       ` Kai Grossjohann [this message]
2004-07-01  9:15         ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2004-07-01  9:30           ` Katsumi Yamaoka

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