[Mew-dist 3230] Re: [Q] Why I can't read message with some Subject ?

[Kazu Yamamoto ( 山本和彦 )]

From: SAKAI Kiyotaka <ksakai at example.com>
Subject: [Mew-dist 3226] Re: [Q] Why I can't read message with some Subject ?
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 1997 18:05:38 +0900

>    In the absence of a MIME-Version field, a receiving mail user agent
>    (whether conforming to MIME requirements or not) may optionally
>    choose to interpret the body of the message according to local
>    conventions.  Many such conventions are currently in use and it
>    should be noted that in practice non-MIME messages can contain just
>    about anything.
> 	
> とあるので、RFC 的には Mew の方で自由に仕様を決めて問題ないと思います。

はっきり local conversion と書いてあるように、その地域の取り決めに従い
ます。日本で使うなら日本の取り決め、すなわち本文は ISO-2022-JP である
と仮定します。

UA が勝手に仕様を決めるのは悲劇です。

--かず