Ben Bucksch wrote: > On 09.02.2009 19:54, Brandon Casey wrote: >> I will follow up with an example patch which has the control >> characters in >> it. <snip> > email bodies are never > going to be character-to-character identical, because there are many > demands on formatting (up to graphical smiles) and from many different > languages (charsets, like seems to be the problem here) on it by users > -, I can understand that the display of the message would not be optimal, and could be different from what the sender intended, but I expect that the saved version would be identical to the original. In the 'graphical smilie' example, you still save colon-close-parenthesis in the file don't you? and not the little smiley face bitmap? > I think your better route for success would be to use inline > attachments and fix the software which can't deal with *that* properly, > including display and quoting. It's not the display part that causes a problem for me, it's the "saving" part. The displayed gobledygook is fine. The saved gobledygook is not. Why doesn't Thunderbird just save out the raw message? -brandon -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
