[mew-int 01344] Re: [mew-dist 23498] Re: Mew 4.0.51

[Kazu Yamamoto ( 山本和彦 )]

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.

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

> 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.

--Kazu