On Mar 8, 2016, at 6:19 PM, Ken Hornstein <kenh(_at_)pobox(_dot_)com> wrote:
Let me explain my larger view. I know lots of people still want to be
able to use Unix text processing utilities on a MH store. But I hate
to be the the one who has to explain this ... that hasn't been a realistic
goal since the advent of MIME. The model that "email is text" just
isn't valid anymore.
No, that's not true. We could decode on inc(1) to UTF-8. Every other MUA
(effectively) does that these days.
Yes, I have argued for and against this in the past, specifically against the
crypto-signature-breakage. But really, what are the odds? I would rather we
decode all the MIME-encoding crap, and wherever possible, translate text/* to
utf-8 according to the charset parameter indications in the mime part. This
means grep(1) continues to work.
I will deal with grep facing binary message blobs. I can strings <msg> | grep
foo to get around that. Strings can't fix QP or base64.
--lyndon
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