Because "Plain Text" has nothing to do with the ENCODING. If you use some funky character, or somebody else does and you reply to it, and Mail or whatever is forced to change encoding sets in order to properly accomodate that character, shit blows up. Olivier has a good post discussing that.
I love how everybody thinks a magical lobotomized app is going to solve all these email woes for them and they'll no longer have to deal with weird character sets, screwed up messages from other email clients, etc. Again, There's a reason there aren't dozens of these apps out there. This shit is HARD, and its HARD to get right All The Time, no matter what kind of horsepower or brainpower you have behind it. As long as you live in the real world and have no control over what the Other Guy is using (this includes operating systems, mail clients, encoding schemas, and mail servers), you're going to hit shit like this. Mail clients try to hit a moving target the size of a golf ball (incoming messages) with a half-cocked BB gun (SMTP) from 100 yards (or through some mysterious email server) and hoping that 90% of the time you can get it right. -nick -- Nick Peelman [email protected] When birds fly in the right formation, they need only exert half the effort. Even in nature, teamwork results in collective laziness. On Jan 27, 2010, at 22:51, LuKreme wrote: > On 27-Jan-2010, at 18:20, John C. Welch wrote: >> >> SOMEthing is really weird. Your last few messages have been a mess unless I >> convert to html, fix the quoting, then go back to text. > > Everything in Mail I can set is set to plain text. > > THIS is why I want Letters, so shit like this doesn't happen. > > I looked at the unencoded message and still cannot figure out why the fuck > Mail.app decided base64 was in any way appropriate. It's gone completely > shit-brained. > > -- > Clicked "Debug" button. Program still has bugs. Wtf? > - Rich Seigel > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > List help: http://lists.ranchero.com/listinfo.cgi/email-init-ranchero.com _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list List help: http://lists.ranchero.com/listinfo.cgi/email-init-ranchero.com
