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Re: pmail-edit inherent problem
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: pmail-edit inherent problem |
Date: |
Wed, 24 Dec 2008 20:15:56 +0200 |
> From: Richard M Stallman <address@hidden>
> Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2008 00:27:04 -0500
>
> pmail-edit operates by unswapping, then narrowing to just the one
> message in the whole-file buffer.
How does this work when the message is encoded in UTF-8, say? Won't
you get to edit the encoded text, which is also hardly useful?
> The only solution I can envision is to let people edit
> the viewing buffers. This would necessitate re-encoding
> the edited contents and copying them into the whole-file buffer.
>
> Does anyone see a problem in this, or have another suggestion?
I think this is the only solution even if the message is not in
base64. Only US-ASCII bodies can be edited directly in the mbox
format.
Am I missing something?