Excerpts from mail: 13-Jan-93 Re: printable wide characte.. "Terry
Crowley"@diamond. (1049)
This doesn't achieve the same effect, since it would enforce character
set switching at the object level rather than on the character level. In
general MIME has this problem. For example, you have an andrew object
that includes an image as a "glyph" in the middle of your paragraph. When
you convert to a multipart message you have a text passage, an image, and
another text passage and no information that this was originally a single
paragraph.
Well, this isn't quite right. The MIME spec says very clearly that the
CRLF preceding a multipart boundary is part of the boundary, and this is
the reason why. It means that you can indeed tell when a text part
doesn't end with a CRLF. The Andrew implementation gets this right; if
you have an image in the middle of a paragraph, it gets written out as a
multipart object with no extra trailing CRLF's (just the one that
precedes the boundary), and then, when it gets read back in by an Andrew
user, it looks like one paragraph again. Really, it works. -- Nathaniel