[mew-int 00500] Re: Getting start of body in mew-summary widow in 2.0 ??

[Kazu Yamamoto ( 山本和彦 )]

From: Wayne Scott <wscott at example.com>
Subject: [mew-int 00499] Getting start of body in mew-summary widow in 2.0 ??

> Now with 2.0 this configuration doesn't appear possible.  The variable
> mew-scan-form is used to set the format of the summary line and it
> doesn't appear to have any ability to append the message body to the
> subject line at the end of the list. 

Of course, I know the problem. And this problem have been discussed
for a long time.

This is a kind of tradeoff for true multilingualization.

- mewls is designed not to parse MIME syntax. We experienced that it
  is very hard to maintain two programs which do the same job. So, 
  only Elisp (ie Mew) parses MIME.

- Without MIME parsing, it is impossible for mewls to tell Mew what
  character set is used *perfectly*.

- Of course, I can do hard coding, assuming specific character sets,
  to save some people. This makes the other people unhappy. Note Mew
  1.95 do this and its multilingualization is not so good.

- One thing in my mind is giving up multipart messages and saving
  singlepart messages. For multipart messages, MIME parsing is
  necessary to know the character set of the first part. For
  singlepart messages, just header parsing is enough. And perhaps 80%
  of messages in the world is single part messages. So, this would
  parcify many people.

--Kazu