Re: Making message/rfc822 boundaries visible

["François Pinard" <pinard@iro.umontreal.ca>]

Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.cygnus.argh.org> writes:

> Jack Vinson <vinson@unagi.cis.upenn.edu> writes:

> > Wow.  HELLO has 56 parts.  Gnus asks if you really want to send it.  Then
> > Gnus dies when you try to send it  (pgnus 0.97) because it "Can't encode a
> > part with several charsets."

> That's the right thing to do, until there's UTF-8 support in Gnus.

Gnus is meant to create as many parts as necessary, on the fly.  But sadly,
I too get "Can't encode a part with several charsets." with the HELLO file.
I'm still using 0.95, but I think it used to work in some earlier version.
When I send simpler multi-charsets files, Gnus 0.95 usually does the proper
thing.  So there are some failing conditions in HELLO, yet the poor little
me would need time investigate them (I do not understand Mule programming).

It is true that in many cases, UTF-8 support would allow for a single
MIME part for everything, indeed.  In other cases, UTF-8 would not convey
distinctions that Asian do want to make, or might not be convenient in some
environments.  We should not start thinking that UTF-8 solves everything.
Too many of us have that strange belief, it is more hope than knowledge! :-)

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François Pinard   http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard