Re: [Nmh-workers] 1.5 release and better repl/MIME handling

2012-04-02 Thread Jon Fairbairn
Ken Hornstein k...@pobox.com writes: No, and I didn’t realise it myself! I read this mailing list through gmane using gnus, so quite what happens to utf-8 is a bit of a mystery. In fact, by the time your follow-up got back to me the apostrophe had turned back into an apostrophe. (There’s also ó

Re: [Nmh-workers] 1.5 release and better repl/MIME handling

2012-04-02 Thread Ken Hornstein
Well, if I run the replied message through mhn it automagically figures out that the charset is UTF-8 and encodes everything with quoted-printable (I assume it's getting the correct charset through my locale). So maybe all I need to do is make sure my script converts all of the text it gets

Re: [Nmh-workers] 1.5 release and better repl/MIME handling

2012-04-02 Thread Ken Hornstein
Yeah, probably. But I'm not sure what the right solution should be for that case. As a side note ... my last message went out as quoted-printable, but I guess the mailing list software re-encoded it as base64. Go figure. --Ken ___ Nmh-workers

Re: [Nmh-workers] 1.5 release and better repl/MIME handling

2012-04-02 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Ken, As a side note ... my last message went out as quoted-printable, but I guess the mailing list software re-encoded it as base64. Go figure. Yes, I think it does that. Bit annoying. Would be nice if it picked the one that shipped the least bytes. Cheers, Ralph.

Re: [Nmh-workers] 1.5 release and better repl/MIME handling

2012-04-02 Thread Jerrad Pierce
Yes, I think it does that. Bit annoying. Would be nice if it picked the one that shipped the least bytes. Bytes schmytes, pick the one that's maximally human readable. ___ Nmh-workers mailing list Nmh-workers@nongnu.org

Re: [Nmh-workers] 1.5 release and better repl/MIME handling

2012-04-02 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Jerrad, Yes, I think it does that. Bit annoying. Would be nice if it picked the one that shipped the least bytes. Bytes schmytes, pick the one that's maximally human readable. That's probably the same thing? Base64 is more than 8/6ths the original, if quoted printable was bigger than

Re: [Nmh-workers] 1.5 release and better repl/MIME handling

2012-04-02 Thread Ken Hornstein
Yes, I think it does that. Bit annoying. Would be nice if it picked the one that shipped the least bytes. Bytes schmytes, pick the one that's maximally human readable. A lot of my European friends refer to quoted-printable as quoted-unreadable. But if the choice is between q-p and base64, I'd

Re: [Nmh-workers] 1.5 release and better repl/MIME handling

2012-04-02 Thread paul vixie
On 4/2/2012 3:17 PM, Jerrad Pierce wrote: Yes, I think it does that. Bit annoying. Would be nice if it picked the one that shipped the least bytes. Bytes schmytes, pick the one that's maximally human readable. +1. ___ Nmh-workers mailing list