Re: MML: The Summation

[Vladimir Volovich <vvv@vvv.vsu.ru>]

"EJS" == Edward J Sabol writes:


 >> I think that this is a BAD THING (TM) Gnus MUST NOT try to change
 >> the structure of a message if user did not asked this
 >> explicitly. For example, what should happen if one writes a mixed
 >> chinese-japanese-russian-norwegian text? In which each paragraph
 >> and each sentence contains quotes from all those languages (e.g. a
 >> multilingual dictionary). Gnus in no way should try to divide that
 >> message into parts.
 EJS> Why not? Seriously, I see nothing wrong with it. Please
 EJS> enlighten me as to why it is so horribly bad.

Just imagine how many parts will result from a mixed text of the form:

[word_in_chinese] [word_in_japanese] [word_in_russian] [word_in_norwegian]
[word_in_chinese] [word_in_japanese] [word_in_russian] [word_in_norwegian]
[word_in_chinese] [word_in_japanese] [word_in_russian] [word_in_norwegian]
[word_in_chinese] [word_in_japanese] [word_in_russian] [word_in_norwegian]
[word_in_chinese] [word_in_japanese] [word_in_russian] [word_in_norwegian]

;-) And would it be possible at all to reconstruct the original
message (recover from all those parts)? If the user did not explicitly
specify a part structure of a message, who can do this?

 EJS> There's no single charset that includes Chinese, Japanese,
 EJS> Russian, and Norwegian glyphs, is there? (I'm showing my
 EJS> international charset ignorance here. My apologies.)

Well, i'm also not sure whether MIME officially registered some of
Unicode encodings as allowable charsets for MIME parts, but if it is
so, then yes, there is a single charset which includes all those
languages, and much more. :-)

	Best regards, -- Vladimir.