Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 00:34:39 -200
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Character conversion
Hello.
On 2000-02-20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
ha>You write with *your* editor which uses *your* charset.
ha>(Though if you do not want to send it like that, you could indeed
ha>pass it through ReRead to remap the whole set and send the output
ha>copy as mailout.)
Can this be automated?
ha>Nettamer for
ha>instance would set a header line for 8-bit chars if one uses the /8
ha>switch.
Of a kind that is worthless to me. I've tried it...
ha>This is true in *practice* too: all 8-bit chars *do* arrive in their
ha>original form at destination.
Good.
ha>> As stated in my original post, QP is understood by all
ha>>mailreaders I know of. And easily converted.
ha>a.) this is a lead-footed workaround
Agreed. It works though.
ha>(look only at the havoc of
ha>line-breaks; UCS will do a better job with the chars but wouldn't
ha>improve the originally bad, M$void "text" formatting),
M$ can't be blamed for _everything_. :-)
They (and we) inherited ASCII and several other charsets. And a
lot of other conventions too.
ha>But despite of all header declarations, this last step is very often
ha>not, or not correctly, done by many applications.
Ahh, here is the crux of the matter.
I don't have your wide experience of applications and thought
QP was something _all_ mail readers understood.
My fault in assuming this without checking any further.
My intent was to put together some no-cost low-tech software
that can run on low-end hardware, just like NT.
Yes, I know file size is an issue on some hardware. But that's
because I include the full program packages as I received them.
A working setup is much smaller, about 220KB _unpacked_.
Even that can be tweaked a little if you strip out the
comments.
This _includes_ a good editor which can do all of the charset
conversion if scripted and .bat-ed properly. Now we are down to
about 50KB.
Even edlin can do that, I think. Edlin comes with all (?)
versions of MS-DOS up to 6.20. I guess the size of scripts and
.bats would be in the range of 5-10KB.
Wouldn't want to use edlin for reading and composing e-mail
though...
ha>Though writing - and correcting - that matrix took not
ha>days but months, and this is outrageous: how many users had wasted
ha>their time to find out, and even to correct manually, only bits and
ha>pieces of those inconsistencies ?!
I wasted some of my time in writing and correcting the
translation tables for fixtext. :-)
With a little help from RFC 1345... That's an awesome document.
Take a look if you haven't already.
Regards,
Lars
Program call to load Windows- "Here_piggy_piggy_piggy"
Net-Tamer V 1.10.1 - Registered
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