[mew-int 2833] Re: Encoding issues at Summary Mode

[Kazu Yamamoto ( 山本和彦 )]

Hello,

> While at (Draft) or (Summary), emacs tells me that it's using
> ctext-unix coding system. Isn't suppose to use utf-8?

Yes. We should use UTF-8 in the near future. Gettting back to 1994
when I started writing Mew, there is not UTF-8. And it was unsure
whether or not Unicode would be accepted in the world.

I designed Mew to support multi-lingual feature from the beginning.
At that time, CText is only stable charset for multi-lingual.

Now Emacs 22/23 supports UTF-8 natively. Emacs 23's CText support is
buggy.

So, I'm planning to change the charset of Summary to UTF-8.
Additionally, quoted-printable/base64 of message bodies should be
decoded. That's why I change Mew's version to 7 on github.

I will re-write "mewl" in Haskell since it seemed to me that
programming in C or Ruby wastes my time.

I'm busy until the end of March. So, I probably will do it from the
next April.

--Kazu