[mew-dist 23502] Re: [mew-int 01344] Re: Mew 4.0.51

[CHOI Junho]

From: Kazu Yamamoto (山本和彦) <kazu at example.com>
Subject: [mew-int 01344] Re: [mew-dist 23498] Re: Mew 4.0.51
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 16:31:26 +0900 (JST)

> Hello Choi,
> Long time no see you.
> 
> From: CHOI Junho <cjh at example.com>
> Subject: [mew-dist 23498] Re: [mew-int 01326] Mew 4.0.51
> 
> > It is great feature to see partial content without looking all
> > messages, but I think it can be very complicated in my environment.
> > There are tons of base64 encoded or html mails in my mailbox. I think
> > 95% of Korean use OE and IE everyday, and OE will send messages base64
> > encoded html mail by default... 
> 
> To be precise, Mew displays only a top-level text/PLAIN or the first
> text/PLAIN part in a top-level multipart.
> 
> Mew does not display a content of Text/Html anyway wether or not it is
> encoded.

Indeed.
 
> One question here: if Korean messages (ie EUC-KR) are sent by plain,
> not html, are they encoded with base64? Or left as 8bit?

mutt, pine and other Unix MUA will send 8-bit, but OE will send
multipart message(text/html and text/plain, both base64-encoded) in
DEFAULT. Many people use web-based MUA via portal sites, mostly use
html-ONLY mail in default.

I can show you some example:

 M08/16  10k "융자관리팀" < 『정보화촉진기금 제3차 융자사업 안내』                      |obrBpLq4yK3Dy8H4seKx3SDBpjPC9yDAtsDau+e+9yC+yLO7obs
 +company/wdb/members 432 <16a901c244ff$39670fc0$55c936d3 at example.com> <>  
 M08/16 131k XXXXXX <tgcho3 입사지원 입니다.                                            |+MC7IMfPsNQNCrXHvvq9wLTPtNkuDQoNCsD6tMIgtOu/7CDB377
 +company/wdb/members 433 <EAEHIOGDIJAEEGCANDKEIEHGCAAA.tgcho35 at example.com> <>  

> > Supporting base64 decoding in summary-form is not impossible but
> > it's only slowing summary-mode.
> 
> I don't know it is worth to implement...
> 
> P.S.
> 
> In Japan, some UAs send ISO-2022-JP text/plain messages without any
> encoding. A few send them with base64/quoted-printable encoding.
> 
> And some send multipart/alternative messages whose first part is
> text/plain and second part is text/html.
> 
> A few send text/html messages.

Situation of Korea is not different from you.

> --Kazu

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