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Re: compose, while MM_CHARSET != us-ascii (with patch)

1992-11-06 05:44:18
| Thanks for the patch.  I'm actually going to use something just a tad
| different.  (A subset of your patch.)
|
| Basically, the charset is captured from the environment, like your
| patch.  But, it is encoded using quoted-printable, not 8bit.
                                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
|
| Not all software is 8bit-clean and this has caused quite a bit of
| difficulty in the past.  (Also 822 is based on 7bit anyway!)

But with quoted-printable my addressee with old software
(here in xSU) would not see my russian messages,
rather cryptic ones. Yes, we modified our understanding of
822 to eight bits (subject and body only).

May be there should be an option (compile time?)
for number of bits available?

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