From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/54535 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Simon Josefsson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Charset encoding brokenness Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 22:22:04 +0100 Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <87ism9rgax.fsf@unix.home> <87n0bkfrvf.fsf@unix.home> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1067462615 11902 80.91.224.253 (29 Oct 2003 21:23:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 21:23:35 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M3076@lists.math.uh.edu Wed Oct 29 22:23:33 2003 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 1AExmv-00069b-00 for ; Wed, 29 Oct 2003 22:23:33 +0100 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 1AExlr-00057r-00; Wed, 29 Oct 2003 15:22:27 -0600 Original-Received: from justine.libertine.org ([66.139.78.221]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1AExlm-00057i-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 29 Oct 2003 15:22:22 -0600 Original-Received: from yxa.extundo.com (178.230.13.217.in-addr.dgcsystems.net [217.13.230.178]) by justine.libertine.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18F623A007E for ; Wed, 29 Oct 2003 15:22:22 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from latte (yxa.extundo.com [217.13.230.178]) (authenticated bits=0) by yxa.extundo.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id h9TLMC1e021944 for ; Wed, 29 Oct 2003 22:22:21 +0100 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Mail-Copies-To: nobody X-Payment: hashcash 1.2 0:031029:ding@gnus.org:a7fda46d959fde15 X-Hashcash: 0:031029:ding@gnus.org:a7fda46d959fde15 In-Reply-To: <87n0bkfrvf.fsf@unix.home> (Vasily Korytov's message of "Wed, 29 Oct 2003 10:03:00 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:54535 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:54535 deskpot@despammed.com (Vasily Korytov) writes: > You didn't get it: I set message-forward-as-mime to nil and press C-c > C-f and get a block like: What you want appear to correspond to my 'Forward-What-I-See, ASCII purist' mode in my other message. I think it is the second most important forward mode to support (pure MIME mode being the first). >>> And if that wasn't me -- but some poor Outlook or even fido users? >> >> Outlook has no problem with viewing base64. I don't know about Fido, >> but I'd consider any client which doesn't do base64 to be extremely >> obsolete. > > I know no MUA, that handle such constructions properly. Even Gnus. Gnus does, but I don't think it is relevant whether any MUA support displaying a forward like that -- when you forward a RFC 822 message verbatim, it is for debugging, and it should be possible to send forwards like that. It shouldn't be the default though.