Re: Rmail-mbox branch

[Stefan Monnier]

>> I guess in absense of such support (and hoping etach or equivalent will
>> magically support mbox format :-), my main concern would be handling of
>> different character sets (Unicode, ISO-8859-x, KOI8-R, are most popular)
>> in plain text msgs, so that I can see the text without jumping through
>> hoops.
> I don't see why the mbox branch would support this any worse than the
> trunk.  The decoding stuff is pretty much stable and well understood,
> after so many releases.

IIIUC the differnece is that BABYL is encoded using emacs-mule, whereas
mbox needs to stick to the standard rfc2822+MIME format.  So BABYL can
be decoded in place once and forall, whereas mbox needs to be decoded
upon display, more or less.


        Stefan