Re: decoding quoted printable

* Peter J Ross on Monday, May 11, 2009 at 19:00:47 +0100
> On Monday 11 May 2009 18:38:04 Christian Ebert wrote:
>> * Y. Hida on Monday, May 11, 2009 at 13:01:33 -0400
>>> On 2009-05-11, Thomas Wiegner <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> http://www.foory.de/thw/slrn/
>>> 
>>> Thanks!  Yes, the problem was with multipart postings, and your patch
>>> works wonders.  Is there any plans for this patch to eventually make it
>>> to slrn source?
>> 
>> imho both patches from that page (us-ascii_override for reading
>> posts with broken charset declarations) should definitely go in.
>> I've been running them without any problems since months.
> 
> I don't use us-ascii_override because, as ThW himself says, "here you start to 
> mess around with standard compliant postings." Also, Google now seems not to 
> use US-ASCII charset declarations at all, preferring ISO-Latin with QP as its 
> default, so the patch may no longer be as useful as it was.

It's still useful for reading mailing lists via Gmane. Plus, it
doesn't alter the original postings, it just enhances readability
in most cases. And you can turn it off anytime. 

> I do use minimal_multipart, and wonder how I ever managed without it, but I 
> don't think it should be made "official", since it *conceals* a lack of MIME 
> support in slrn rather than *fixing* it.

Again, its use is optional. Plus, I'd argue that a pragmatic
handling of (mime) text to enhance readability as opposed to a
puristic full-fledged mime-support suits a slim slrn very well,
especially for quick perusal of Gmane groups. And you can always
pipe to metamail.

> Question: does minimal_multipart play nicely with your own slrnmime 
> extensions?

Ermh, yes, until you tell me otherwise ;-) I have to admit that I
almost never use this part of my extensions anymore because
Thomas was so kind as to let me try his mailcap patch which
basically makes my mime-efforts obsolete, hehe. There's still
other stuff in the package (wrapping, a corresponding
functionality to Mutt's display_filter) that I personally find
useful.

As you're using latest slrn, be sure to install the patched20
branch -- I have look into how to make the branching clearer and
adapt it to the current slrn development status ... if I find the
time.

c
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