Re: Attaching binary files

On Wednesday 16 December 2009, Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> On Wednesday 16 December 2009, bill purvis wrote:
> > I've recently upgraded to 1.12.2 and today needed to email a couple
> > of binary files to someone. When the selection window pops up I
> > noticed that it now has an item to define the character encoding, but
> > there is no entry for 'binary'. Is there a good reason for this? Does
> > it actually have any significant effect? What is the recommendation
> > for shipping binary files as attachements?
> 
> The character encoding is meaningless for binary data. It is only
> relevant for plain text files because text files usually do not contain
> information about the encoding used in the text file.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Ingo
> 
Exactly! Which is why I want to know why there is no 'binary' option in
list of encodings. I don't want my binary file to be 'mapped' into some
other meaningless encoding. If nothing is going to happen what is the
point of providing this option?

Bill
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