Re: Attaching binary files

On Thursday 17 December 2009, bill purvis wrote:
> 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.
>
> 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?

I suppose you are referring to the file selection dialog. The option is 
provided in case you select a text file as attachment. If you attach a 
binary file then the selected encoding is ignored.


Regards,
Ingo

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