From: Robert Bihlmeyer <e9426626@stud4.tuwien.ac.at>
Subject: Re: PDF's as base64 vs. Q/P encoded attachments
Date: 16 Jul 1999 18:39:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <lf908gim6w.fsf@mars.zserv.tuwien.ac.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Graham Todd's message of "Fri, 16 Jul 1999 05:13:18 GMT"
Hi,
>>>>> On Fri, 16 Jul 1999 05:13:18 GMT
>>>>> Graham Todd <gtodd@yorku.ca> said:
Graham> There was a thread a while ago about how to decide between
Graham> encoding schemes for attachments and Lars wrote a function
Graham> that switched between them based on efficiency.
Is this already in the distribution?
Graham> If the cut-off point for encoding is 1/6 or more non-ASCII
Graham> characters most PDF's would/should get encoded as base64
Graham> wouldn't they?
At least the compressed ones are sure to end up having about half of
their characters outside ASCII.
Robbe
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-07-16 16:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-07-16 5:13 Graham Todd
1999-07-16 10:22 ` Toby Speight
1999-07-21 22:18 ` Graham Todd
1999-08-27 19:03 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-07-16 16:39 ` Robert Bihlmeyer [this message]
1999-07-21 22:19 ` Graham Todd
1999-08-27 19:07 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-09-22 9:41 ` [PATCH] [BUG] Binary attachments use wrong encoding (was Re: PDF's as base64 vs. Q/P encoded attachments) Kim-Minh Kaplan
1999-09-22 14:16 ` Kim-Minh Kaplan
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