From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/18886 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Vladimir Volovich Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: MML: The Summation Date: 18 Nov 1998 21:30:30 +0300 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <199811181636.LAA29203@alderaan.gsfc.nasa.gov> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035157334 8610 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 23:42:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 23:42:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Gnus Mailing List Return-Path: Original-Received: from karazm.math.uh.edu (karazm.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.1]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA13665 for ; Wed, 18 Nov 1998 13:37:02 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by karazm.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id MAB21754; Wed, 18 Nov 1998 12:36:41 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Wed, 18 Nov 1998 12:36:38 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA07870 for ; Wed, 18 Nov 1998 12:36:20 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from cc.vsu.ru (root@ns.vsu.relarn.ru [194.226.24.1]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA13607 for ; Wed, 18 Nov 1998 13:35:40 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: (from uucp@localhost) by cc.vsu.ru (8.9.1/8.9.1) with UUCP id VAA05739; Wed, 18 Nov 1998 21:31:50 +0300 Original-Received: (from vvv@localhost) by vvv.vsu.ru (8.8.7/8.8.7) id VAA01417; Wed, 18 Nov 1998 21:30:30 +0300 Original-To: "Edward J. Sabol" In-Reply-To: "Edward J. Sabol"'s message of "Wed, 18 Nov 1998 11:36:38 -0500" Original-Lines: 34 User-Agent: Gnus/5.07005 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.50) Emacs/20.3 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:18886 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:18886 "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.