ralph wrote: > Hi Wolfgang, > > > I think mhfixmsg is a powerful and useful tool, but I can't use it as > > I cannot edit the resulting files as my favorite editor gets confused > > over the mix of character sets in a single file. > > A file containing an email in wire format, like nmh's, can have bytes > that represent glyphs/runes in a variety of character encodings. That's > both before and after mhfixmsg have looked at it. vim can't handle that > AFAIK. (Can Emacs? :-) There isn't a solution since text/html can't > change character encoding because it may have headers that are then > wrong, and even if they're altered, which seems like a very bad idea to > me, then there's no saying that other aspects of the page don't expect a > particular encoding. > > The solution is to split the single file into multiple ones, then vim > sees a single encoding used for the whole file. Various ways to do that > have been mooted here in the past, e.g. an email being a directory > structure mirroring the MIME structure.
seems like vim needs a new mode, for editing RFC-5322 files. paul =---------------------- paul fox, [email protected] (arlington, ma, where it's 37.8 degrees) _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
