From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/24293 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Robert Bihlmeyer Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: PDF's as base64 vs. Q/P encoded attachments Date: 16 Jul 1999 18:39:03 +0200 Organization: V Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035161884 7947 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 00:58:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 00:58:04 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from farabi.math.uh.edu (farabi.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.57]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA26978 for ; Fri, 16 Jul 1999 12:42:01 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by farabi.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id LAB23829; Fri, 16 Jul 1999 11:39:44 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Fri, 16 Jul 1999 11:40:16 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA17657 for ; Fri, 16 Jul 1999 11:40:06 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from mars.zserv.tuwien.ac.at (mars.zserv.tuwien.ac.at [193.170.75.15]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id MAA26902 for ; Fri, 16 Jul 1999 12:39:02 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: (qmail 26246 invoked by uid 524); 16 Jul 1999 16:39:04 -0000 Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-Attribution: Robbe In-Reply-To: Graham Todd's message of "Fri, 16 Jul 1999 05:13:18 GMT" Original-Lines: 23 User-Agent: Gnus/5.070095 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.95) XEmacs/20.4 (Emerald) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:24293 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:24293 Hi, >>>>> On Fri, 16 Jul 1999 05:13:18 GMT >>>>> Graham Todd 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 -- Robert Bihlmeyer reads: Deutsch, English, MIME, Latin-1, NO SPAM!