[mew-int 01584] Re: windows 1252

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 21:39:16 +0900 (JST)
> From: Kazu Yamamoto (=?iso-2022-jp?B?GyRCOzNLXE9CSScbKEI=?=) <kazu at example.com>
> 
> Mew saves a buffer in Summary mode to a file as a cache. For this
> file, 'ctext is used.

Doesn't the Summary buffer include only the Subject and From parts of
the message?  If so, then they should not normally include any
non-ASCII characters (it's contrary to the relevant RFC, IIRC).  If
they do have non-ASCII characters, one could probably qp-encode them
before writing the cache.