Re: rmail and quoted-printable

[Barry Margolin]

In article <mailman.6172.1157231314.9609.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

> > CC: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> > Jabber-ID: zedek@im.lolica.org
> > From: Xavier Maillard <zedek@gnu.org>
> > Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2006 19:36:41 +0200
> > 
> >    ``Just work'' in what sense?  Can you describe the simplest set of
> >    features, from the user point of view, that would satisfy you?
> > 
> > The best I can think at, is as simple as automatically decoding just
> > by displaying an rmail message.
> 
> You seem to assume that the quoted-printable part is text.  But it
> sometimes isn't; and then in some cases that part is base64-encoded,
> not quoted-printable encoded.

I've never seen quoted-printable that wasn't text.  The point of 
quoted-printable is that it's used for plain text, to just encode 
occasional special characters, such as soft line breaks, diacriticals, 
fancy quotes, etc.

It's possible that an attachment is base64-encoded, but he's not asking 
about that, just about quoted printable.

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Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
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