Re: Propsed new issue: variability of encoding in Miffy

Mark Nottingham wrote:

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> On Jan 7, 2004, at 9:04 AM, Martin Gudgin wrote:
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>> So I think what it happening here is that when things are sent a binary
>> ( and 8-bit? ) no encoding/decoding occurs at the MIME level. For 7-bit.
>> base64 and quoted-printable encoding/decoding happens at the MIME layer.
>> In all cases the octets at the layer above MIME are the same.
>>
>> Is this correct?
> 
> 
> In broad brushstrokes, yes.

Not quite, there isn't any encoding/decoding that occurs for 7-bit. The 
content-transfer-encoding is just a declaration that the data is 7-bit 
clean.

-Anish
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