> most plan 9 tools are used on the upas presentation of a mailbox, > which *is* in utf-8. very few tools operate directly on the 8-bit > mail message. pipeto.lib is one of the few, and even there it > just works to get its input into an mbox and then invokes upas/fs. > > attempting to perform any conversion of the raw message is a mistake. > you're almost guaranteed to lose some information, and with little > to no benefit (thanks to everything using upas/fs to access mail).
is there anything in the incoming charset that is useful? what distinguishes it from noise? - erik
