Re: Patching packages (WAS Re: Who is maintainer of pcl-cvs)

Jarl Friis wrote: > > > What is "quoted printable encoding"? > > > > It's a mechanism for ensuring that the data isn't modified during > > transit. Certain characters are encoded as "=XX", where XX is the > > character's hex value. Also any newlines which are introduced to break > > lines to the 80-character limit are preceded with an "=". > > > > Basically, it's saying "use quoted-printable encoding rather than > > base-64 encoding or no encoding". Base-64 is completely illegible > > unless decoded; no encoding risks data corruption in transit. > > In that case, how do I ensure that I attach it as "quoted printable > encoding"? i.e. what MIME-type major/minor is that? It isn't a type, it's a "transfer encoding". A typical patch attachment would have something like: Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable AFAIK, VM will use the setting of vm-mime-8bit-text-transfer-encoding to determine the encoding of text/plain attachments. The default is quoted-printable.