Re: Automatic part insertion: åäö and 吃哪塞 on the same line

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

(Sorry about the previous, empty message.)

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

> 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).

Quoth RFC2046:

   NOTE:  The CRLF preceding the boundary delimiter line is conceptually
   attached to the boundary so that it is possible to have a part that
   does not end with a CRLF (line  break).  Body parts that must be
   considered to end with line breaks, therefore, must have two CRLFs
   preceding the boundary delimiter line, the first of which is part of
   the preceding body part, and the second of which is part of the
   encapsulation boundary.

> Also, gnus should prefer to not create `automagical' mime parts if
> it _can_ find a single charset for the whole part. For example, a
> message with mixed russian+japanese seems to fit into japanese mime
> encoding. So, even if i'm sending this from a cyrillic environment
> in Emacs, gnus should prefer to encode the part with the mixed text
> using single charset, if available. Thus, when Emacs will support
> unicode, gnus will send messages with mixed chinese+scandinavian
> text without breaking into parts.

I don't really know about this one.  If I'm composing a message using
Scandianvian and Sami characters (which would be iso-8859-1 and
iso-8859-9 if I'm responsing to someone using iso-8859-9,) I want to
respons using iso-8859-9 and iso-8859-1, not Unicode, no matter
whether Emacs supports it or not.  What's important is what the
recipient supports, and one can't assume that the recipient supports
these megacharsets.

MIME is widely implemented, if (ahum) slightly shakily here and
there.  Unicode is not.  So it's better to Mimetilate a message than
to Unicodelate the messege.

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  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen