From: Toby Speight <Toby.Speight@streapadair.freeserve.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Does Gnus UTF-7?
Date: 21 Jul 1999 14:30:49 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <uhfmyqgdy.fsf@lanber.cam.citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: andreas.koenig@anima.de's message of "21 Jul 1999 15:14:01 +0200"
Andreas> Andreas J. Koenig <URL:mailto:andreas.koenig@anima.de>
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0> In <URL:news:sfcvhbegvnf.fsf@andreas.in-berlin.de>, Andreas wrote:
Andreas> X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (WinNT; I)
Andreas> Subject: =?x-UNICODE-2-0-UTF-7?B?QUdST0ItR2VsK08yUS1l?=
>>>>> On 21 Jul 1999 12:25:09 +0100, Toby Speight
>>>>> <Toby.Speight@streapadair.freeserve.co.uk> said:
>>
>> You've gotta laugh. Base-64 encoding UTF-7?!
0> In article <sfcn1wqgn6u.fsf@andreas.in-berlin.de>, Andreas wrote:
Andreas> That's a valid word according to RFC 2047 (MIME Part Three:
Andreas> Message Header Extensions for Non-ASCII Text).
Yes, I'm aware. It just seems wasteful for NS to write the above when
=?x-UNICODE-2-0-UTF-7?Q?AGROB-Gel+O2Q-e?= is less bloated. It's just
*weird* to base64-encode something which is 7-bit-clean (as UTF-7 is).
Andreas> Trying to translate the UTF-7-string to latin isn't possible,
Andreas> but this wasn't my point. I was mainly interested if UTF-7
Andreas> support is there.
Sorry, I wasn't trying to answer your question (I don't know whether
we support UTF-7, but I believe we ought to). I was just diving down
a side-track.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-07-21 13:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-07-21 10:11 Andreas J. Koenig
1999-07-21 11:25 ` Toby Speight
1999-07-21 13:14 ` Andreas J. Koenig
1999-07-21 13:30 ` Toby Speight [this message]
1999-07-21 16:30 ` Toby Speight
1999-07-22 10:11 ` Hrvoje Niksic
1999-08-02 12:15 ` Jon K Hellan
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