Re: Emacs 22 branch created.

[Andreas Schwab]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

>>   * At the moment, it is slightly worse than current Rmail when it comes
>>     to non-ascii support.  One of the major points of moving to the mbox
>>     format is to be compatible with external tools, and that rules out
>>     storing mailboxes in emacs-mule form, which old Rmail does.  I'm
>>     still not sure what the best approach here would be here.  UTF-8?
>>     Raw text?
>
> The mailbox should not be decoded, most likely.
> The decoding should only happen when displaying a message.

FWIW, this is also what Gnus is doing.

Andreas.

-- 
Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, address@hidden
SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany
PGP key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756  01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5
"And now for something completely different."