Re: replying to text/plain base64

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On Tue, 16 Oct 2007 23:51:52 PDT, Kevin Cosgrove said:

> Bummer dude.  Surely those PDF or Office files aren't text/plain,
> only base64, right?

Fortunately, they're base64 (and they're application/foo, not text/plain). If
they were treated as a C-T-E of 7bit they'd be invalid, and if they were a
C-T-E of 'binary' or '8bit', it would probably interpret it as UTF-8 text and
proceed to go and try to find fonts to display all the multi-byte characters
that point out to code pages in Big5 or Klingonese space.. ;)

If it wasn't piggy enough displaying a 64-char subset of ascii, imagine the
piggy of going looking for fonts at the same time... :)

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