Bruce Lilly <blilly(_at_)verizon(_dot_)net> writes:
Yes, RFC 2046 gives the syntax for multipart MIME entities, and that
syntax is such that an entity may end at some content other than CRLF
(CRLF introduces a delimiter). So technically it is possible to change
charset and/or language by using a multipart message, probably
multipart/related. However, it would be impractical, as the MIME
"markup" (delimiters, MIME-part headers) would be at least as onerous
for a reader using a non-MIME UA as the corresponding HTML markup in a
non-HTML UA. And in practice there are too many broken implementations
I think you're being far too pessimistic about this. Gnus currently uses
this mechanism.
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