>> I'm not disputing that, and I understand that my current choice of >> mail reader limits me. I was just asking if it would be possible >> (read: fairly easy) to only generate utf-8 when it was necessary.
Eugene> Isn't utf-8 itself same as ascii where no non-ascii symbols are Eugene> used? Sure, but the mime header tells VM that the body of the part is utf-8 encoded, and it's base64-encoded. If it wasn't base64-encoded I could simply hit D in my mail reader to expand the part. Skip _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com