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Re: [Nmh-workers] Release Engineering
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David Levine |
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Re: [Nmh-workers] Release Engineering |
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Mon, 23 Dec 2013 00:08:20 -0500 |
> >> I agree that 8bit would be friendlier. The question is
> >> whether we should try to get it into 1.6.
> >
> >And another possible issue: I'm not sure that our MIME
> >parser can handle 8-bit input. I don't have evidence
> >at hand, but I tried quickly a while back and ran into
> >trouble.
>
> I know Ralph sends out 8bit all of the time, and AFAIK we never have
> a problem with it. We don't convert stuff from non-local native
> character sets; is that maybe the issue?
Could be. And UTF-8 might avoid the issue.
It wouldn't affect outgoing mail. mhlist, mhstore, etc., do use
the MIME parser.
David