Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh internals: full MIME integration

[Ralph Corderoy]

Hi Earl,

> > Would be much nicer if it travelled internally as UTF-8 and then
> > popped into the US-ASCII draft as
> >
> >     Subject: Re: =3D?utf-8?B?wqE=3D?=3DHola world!
> >
> > and into the UTF-8 draft as "Re: =C2=A1Hola world!".
> 
> But this behavior does not require the data to be stored in UTF-8.

No, agreed.  None of the recent conversation triggered by Ken's proposed
re-write of m_getfld() are talking about on-disk format.  (Though that
has come up in the past.)  By "internally", I mean conversion to/from
UTF-8 at the edges of the process during I/O.

Cheers, Ralph.