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From: Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr>
Subject: Re: Automatic part insertion: åäö and 吃哪塞 on the same line
Date: 02 Dec 1998 18:50:39 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <kigaf16juvk.fsf@jagor.srce.hr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Vladimir Volovich's message of "02 Dec 1998 15:39:47 +0300"

Vladimir Volovich <vvv@vvv.vsu.ru> writes:

> "KS" == Kurt Swanson writes:
> 
>  KS>   Automatic part insertion:
> 
> Well, very nice. :-) I take my words back about automatical parts
> insertions, _provided_that_ there is an RFC which specifies that some
> part should be displayed as a continuation of the line of previous
> part (as gnus did when displaying your message). Is it really
> documented?

Well.  RFC's don't normally specify message rendering.  However, it
*is* documented that the newline preceding the closing boundary is
syntactically a part of the boundary.  Quoth rfc2046:

   The boundary delimiter MUST occur at the beginning of a line, i.e.,
   following a CRLF, and the initial CRLF is considered to be attached
   to the boundary delimiter line rather than part of the preceding
   part.

This implies that this:

--boundary
text
--boundary--

means `text' without newline, while

--boundary
text

--boundary--

means `text
', all with the newline.  So what Gnus does is quite right.  This also
explains why many MIME composers insert seemingly redundant newlines
before the closing boundaries.

But then again, noone can guarantee anything about how others will
display it.  Netscape, for one, displays a horizontal ruler between
the multiparts, and I can't find a good objection to that.

> If so, then all is fine. Also, gnus should prefer to not create
> `automagical' mime parts if it _can_ find a single charset for the
> whole part.

Agreed.  Gnus should try not to use magic if it is at all possible.

-- 
Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> | Student at FER Zagreb, Croatia
--------------------------------+--------------------------------
I'm a Lisp variable -- bind me!


  parent reply	other threads:[~1998-12-02 17:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 70+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <6f67buzzff.fsf@dna.lth.se>
1998-12-02  9:41 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-12-02 10:00   ` Russ Allbery
1998-12-02 12:49     ` Kurt Swanson
1998-12-02 17:19     ` Automatic part insertion: åäö and ÔÄû " François Pinard
1998-12-02 17:30       ` Hrvoje Niksic
1998-12-02 17:55         ` Richard Coleman
1998-12-03  8:53           ` Automatic part insertion: åao and ÔAû " Jari Aalto+list.ding
1998-12-02 18:02     ` Automatic part insertion: åäö and 吃哪塞 " Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-12-02 19:32     ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-12-02 10:27   ` Matt Armstrong
1998-12-02 18:03     ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-12-02 19:12     ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-12-02 20:39       ` Simon Josefsson
     [not found]         ` <6fyaopd2dz.fsf@dna.lth.se>
1998-12-03 18:39           ` Simon Josefsson
1998-12-02 16:59   ` Hrvoje Niksic
1998-12-02 22:19   ` Karl Kleinpaste
1998-12-02 22:40     ` Hrvoje Niksic
1998-12-02 23:07     ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-02-13  2:17       ` Neil Crellin
1999-02-13  6:00         ` Dmitry Yaitskov
1999-02-13 12:59           ` Kai.Grossjohann
1999-02-19 13:58         ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-02-19 17:04           ` Neil Crellin
1998-12-03  0:10     ` Kai.Grossjohann
1998-12-03  6:38       ` Graham Murray
1998-12-03 10:46         ` Kai.Grossjohann
1998-12-03 11:50         ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-12-02 12:39 ` Vladimir Volovich
1998-12-02 17:38   ` Shenghuo ZHU
1998-12-02 18:34     ` Vladimir Volovich
1998-12-02 18:59       ` Shenghuo ZHU
1998-12-02 19:43         ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-12-02 23:34           ` Info on Internationalization Richard Coleman
1998-12-03  0:05             ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-12-03  0:17               ` Shenghuo ZHU
1998-12-03 11:39                 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-12-03 16:49                   ` Shenghuo ZHU
1998-12-03  0:27               ` Richard Coleman
1998-12-06 14:11               ` François Pinard
1998-12-03  0:06             ` Shenghuo ZHU
1998-12-03  0:12               ` Hrvoje Niksic
1998-12-03 11:38               ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-12-03 13:18                 ` Hrvoje Niksic
1998-12-03 16:39                   ` Shenghuo ZHU
1998-12-03 16:38                 ` Shenghuo ZHU
1998-12-04  1:15                   ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-12-04  7:10                     ` Shenghuo ZHU
1998-12-02 21:19         ` Automatic part insertion: åäö and 吃哪塞 on the same line Vladimir Volovich
1998-12-02 21:37           ` Shenghuo ZHU
1998-12-02 22:18             ` Vladimir Volovich
1998-12-02 23:29               ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-12-02 17:50   ` Hrvoje Niksic [this message]
1998-12-02 18:19   ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-12-02 19:12   ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-12-02 19:41     ` Vladimir Volovich
1998-12-02 21:34       ` Hrvoje Niksic
1998-12-02 22:29       ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-12-04  8:31         ` Vladimir Volovich
1998-12-02 21:33     ` Hrvoje Niksic
1998-12-02 16:26 ` Michael Harnois
1998-12-02 17:02   ` Michael Harnois
1998-11-14 15:30 Scriptin' MIME Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-11-14 18:07 ` Bruce Stephens
1998-11-14 18:27   ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-11-14 18:38     ` Bruce Stephens
1998-11-14 20:48     ` Richard Coleman
1998-11-14 19:55   ` Hrvoje Niksic
1998-11-14 20:45     ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-11-14 20:45       ` Hrvoje Niksic
1998-11-14 18:29 ` Andi Kleen

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