From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Apr 4 17:25:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from phobos.illtel.denver.co.us (dsl-206.169.4.82.wenet.com [206.169.4.82]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B1C537B8F5 for ; Tue, 4 Apr 2000 17:25:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from abelits@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us) Received: from localhost (abelits@localhost) by phobos.illtel.denver.co.us (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA11265; Tue, 4 Apr 2000 17:26:04 -0700 Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2000 17:26:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Alex Belits To: Anatoly Vorobey Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unicode on FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <20000404200220.A82098@sasami.jurai.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 4 Apr 2000, Anatoly Vorobey wrote: > You mean, MIME multipart documents are better than Unicode if I, for instance, > want to handle Tolstoy's "War and Peace" with French quotes in the middle of > Russian sentences? > > I don't think so. This is what multipart format exists for -- to combine documents or sections in the document with possibly different metadata in the headers. The idea of "mail attachment" appeared later. -- Alex ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Excellent.. now give users the option to cut your hair you hippie! -- Anonymous Coward To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message