Julian Bradfield writes: > On 2012-01-19, Uday Reddy <[email protected]> wrote: > > More generally, I am thinking that there is no reason why we can't have VM > > folders stored in some other character set, other than US-ASCII, e.g., > > UTF-8. Those folders won't be interoperable with other mail clients, but do > > VM folders are simply binary files. The character set of a given > message - or subpart of a message - is determined by its MIME charset. > > If you wanted, you could transcode all non-utf-8 parts to utf-8, but > the folder would still be a binary file; it would just be a binary > file that happened also to be valid utf-8 as a whole.
Oh, perhaps you are saying they are "binary" as opposed to "ASCII". I think that is a matter of view point. You can load a utf-8 folder into VM but, if there are any multibyte codes in there, they will get interpreted as separate characters. You can't search them. If it has 8-bit codes, you might be in sligtly better luck. But if your default is iso-8859-1, and your message text is in iso-8858-X, then you won't be able to search it either. You are probably thinking of the folder as being made up of bytes as opposed to characters. That is a fine view point to take as long as you don't care to search. But searching is what this thread is about! Cheers, Uday
