On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 23:34:57 PDT, Eric Gillespie said:
Um, you're looking at the quoted-unreadable format I transmitted the files in. You want to save these with mhstore, and then you'll see.
You missed the point. The problem is that even *after* you handle the Q-P encoding, the line looks like this: % hexdump -C /tmp/work9 00000000 54 6f 3a 20 54 c3 b6 6d 20 c3 98 72 6c 65 79 20 |To: T..m ..rley | 00000010 3c 74 65 73 74 64 65 63 6f 64 65 40 65 78 61 6d |<testdecode(_at_)exam| 00000020 70 6c 65 2e 63 6f 6d 3e 0a |ple.com>.| 00000029 Broken out byte by byte we have x'54' T, x'c3' (iso8859-1 cap-A-tilde or the first half of a UTF-8, something else entirely for koi-8), x'b6' (iso8859-1 para-sign or second half of an UTF-8 O-umlaut). A few bytes later, we have x'20 c3 98'. A blank, and then two *more* bytes that are encoding-dependent, but with no way to tell what encoding was used. After undoing the Q-P, you now have the same *bytecodes* - but by the same toke, the mhstore has *LOST* the charset="UTF-8" that the text/plain had attached to it. The line doesn't contain any rfc2047 encoding tags, or any other way to determine what non-ascii characters are in use. They're not in the mail as I received it, they're not in the file produced after I mhsave it, they're simply *NOT THERE*. If you *do* have an rfc2047 tag in that line that I'm managing to not see, please point it out to me. Not all the world is UTF-8, and it is *NOT*, repeat *NOT* acceptable to just proclaim that it is. Wrong: To: T=C3=B6m =C3=98rley <testdecode(_at_)example(_dot_)com> Also Wrong, but produces the same bytes: To: =iso8859-1?Q?T=C3=B6m =C3=98rley? <testdecode(_at_)example(_dot_)com> Right, and produces the same bytes: To: =?utf-8?Q?T=C3=B6m=20=C3=98rley? <testdecode(_at_)example(_dot_)com> Ponder until you understand why all 3 produce the same decoded bytes, but only one is actually correct.
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