R. David Murray wrote: >On Thu, 21 May 2009 at 13:08, s...@pobox.com wrote: >> Alas, then I lose the notion that the file is actually text/csv. For >> example, how would Outlook or Thunderbird know to open such a file in Excel >> or OpenOffice Calc? > >By using whatever heuristics it uses for such a file on disk (including >the filename extension), I would imagine. Suboptimal, but lacking >a compression standard for email-MIME, it is probably the best you can do.
Ideally, one would be able to specify a parameter on the Content-Type; header along the lines of Content-Type: text/csv; charset="utf-8"; compression="gzip" The MIME standards allow for such parameter extensions, but since I just made that one up, no MUA is going to recognize it :( -- Mark Sapiro <m...@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan _______________________________________________ Email-SIG mailing list Email-SIG@python.org Your options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/email-sig/archive%40mail-archive.com
