[mew-int 3151] Re: Display base64 encoded body in summary mode

[Tatsuya Kinoshita]

On August 19, 2009, [mew-int 2723], kazu (at iij.ad.jp) wrote:
> Hello Chen,
> 
>> However, I found that base64 encoded mails are not displayed in
>> summary mode. I receive this kind of mail very often. It's very useful
>> that I can preview the body in summary line so that I can skim through
>> the mails and read interested one.
> 
> When I designed Mew about 15 years ago, computers are very slow. So, I
> decided to not decode base64 in Summary mode since base64-encoded
> messages are rare at least in US-ASCII/ISO-8859-1/ISO-2022-JP
> community.
> 
> Now computers become much faster, so it's a good time to re-consider
> the assumption.
> 
>> Patch is attached. Maybe this can become a option?
> 
> This makes sense.

I've improved Kan-Ru Chen's patch which supports Quoted-Printable
decoding and the option mew-scan-decode-bq-body.

  https://github.com/kazu-yamamoto/Mew/pull/30
  git pull https://github.com/tats/Mew feature/scan-bq-body

Kazu, could you please consider applying this patch?

Thanks,
-- 
Tatsuya Kinoshita