Re: Microsoft declared "attractive nuisance"; expect list delays

Hrvoje> Using iso-8859-1 as charset would make it viewable and Hrvoje> savable for the largest subset of users. If I were in Hrvoje> Lars's position, I'd use that and hope the world forgives Hrvoje> me for mislabeling 128-160 range. But that's not the problem. The problem is converting to a 7-bit representation. Quoted-Printable is unreliable (many MUAs implement it incorrectly), BASE64 unacceptable (it bumps your spamassassin rating by 2.0 IIRC ;-), 8bit is unreliable. So larsi is stuck with (*gag* *retch*) ISO-2022. Hrvoje> As long as we're (mis)labeling binary as text, we have to Hrvoje> resort to an approximation. So fix that. "Hey, Beavis! This buffer is full of non-characters in your locale. WTF??! Put it in an attachment where it belongs!" or however larsi would say that. Hrvoje> Doesn't message set the coding system to "escape-quoted", Hrvoje> at least under XEmacs/Mule? Yes. That's an inspired hack that ensures that drafts and autosaves are interchangable, it seems to me. -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Ask not how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.