From: Self <maksim>
To: Ian Brown <I(_dot_)Brown(_at_)cs(_dot_)ucl(_dot_)ac(_dot_)uk>
Subject: Re: OP and pgp5.0i: some problems
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Date sent: Thu, 4 Dec 1997 15:50:34 +0400
on Thu, 04 Dec 1997 10:22:43 Ian Brown quoted Maksim Otstavnov and
wrote: > > It would be nice but Windows or Mac native Cyrillic
codepages will > > look gibberish to each other. (Of course there are
tools to read > > cp1251 on Mac or Unix, but we aim at Mr Common
User). Normalization to > > KOI8 is currently the only safe way to
achive cross-platform legibility > > (even MS mailers learned to
understand koi8 nowadays). > > PGP/MIME would be perfect for this. A
MIME encoding of your message > would be signed rather than the
message itself.
Currently, PGP/MIME (RFC2015) allows only 7-bit content. The perfect
solution would be to have an option of 8-bit MIME
(eg
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=KOI8-R
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
for Russian)
containing clearsigned message.
There are 2 questions:
1) do plugins in existence support the operation?
(of course I would just test it, but it requires installing rather
huge MS Outlook and _warez_ Eudora plugin, the latter not included in
5.0i kit).
2) Should it be documented in OP or in a separate document?
I'd welcome comments from plugins developers.
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