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From: Vladimir Volovich <vvv@vvv.vsu.ru>
Subject: Re: should mbox be opened in unibyte mode
Date: 05 May 2000 00:27:27 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3itwuxdqo.fsf@vvv.vsu.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Shenghuo ZHU's message of "04 May 2000 10:39:41 -0400"

"ZSH" == Shenghuo ZHU writes:

 ZSH> Multibyte is intentionally enabled in the mbox buffer. I don't
 ZSH> know the reason.

i thought a bit on this, and it seems that mbox MUST be opened in
unibyte mode, otherwise the results will be broken.

mbox may contain arbitrary 8-bit data (coming from 8-bit CTT mime
parts e.g. in utf-8). these 8-bit char sequences must not be
interpreted by mule as multibyte chars because this is plain wrong:
these sequences come from random standard registered charsets which
have nothing to do with internal mule encoding. so, the mbox should be
treated as a raw (uni)byte sequence, but not as something that has
relation to internal mule encoding.

	Best regards, -- Vladimir.



  reply	other threads:[~2000-05-04 20:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-05-04 11:04 Vladimir Volovich
2000-05-04 14:39 ` Shenghuo ZHU
2000-05-04 20:27   ` Vladimir Volovich [this message]
2000-05-04 21:33     ` Shenghuo ZHU
2000-05-05  5:05     ` Shenghuo ZHU
2000-05-05  5:42 Janusz S. Bien
2000-05-05 15:31 ` Stainless Steel Rat
2000-05-05 16:38   ` Hrvoje Niksic
2000-05-05 17:00     ` Shenghuo ZHU
2000-05-05 17:15       ` Hrvoje Niksic
2000-05-05 17:46         ` Kai Großjohann
2000-05-06 18:55           ` Hrvoje Niksic
2000-05-06  0:50     ` Stainless Steel Rat
2000-05-21  8:31 ` Vladimir Volovich
2000-05-05 21:50 Janusz S. Bien
2000-05-21 14:08 Janusz S. Bien
2000-05-21 16:15 ` Vladimir Volovich
2000-05-22  6:06 Janusz S. Bien
2000-05-22 19:47 ` Vladimir Volovich
2000-05-23  5:26 Janusz S. Bien

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