From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/58011 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kai Grossjohann Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: elisp encoding Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 12:27:54 +0200 Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: <868ye5z6fp.fsf@rumba.de.uu.net> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1088591382 9335 80.91.224.253 (30 Jun 2004 10:29:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 10:29:42 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M6552@lists.math.uh.edu Wed Jun 30 12:29:36 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BfcLQ-0006mz-00 for ; Wed, 30 Jun 2004 12:29:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1BfcK6-0006vp-00; Wed, 30 Jun 2004 05:28:14 -0500 Original-Received: from util2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.23]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1BfcJw-0006vh-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 30 Jun 2004 05:28:04 -0500 Original-Received: from justine.libertine.org ([66.139.78.221] ident=postfix) by util2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BfcJu-0004Ym-1H for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 30 Jun 2004 05:28:02 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org (quimby.gnus.org [80.91.224.244]) by justine.libertine.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E27B3A0058 for ; Wed, 30 Jun 2004 05:27:57 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from news by quimby.gnus.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BfcJo-0005w1-00 for ; Wed, 30 Jun 2004 12:27:56 +0200 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnus.ding Original-Lines: 22 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 139.4.37.213 Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 1088591276 21460 139.4.37.213 (30 Jun 2004 10:27:56 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 10:27:56 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:5IeIbTr78K1ylyKq4SggfaKaKHU= Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:58011 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:58011 Katsumi Yamaoka 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