Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2000 17:26:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Alex Belits <abelits@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us> To: Anatoly Vorobey <mellon@pobox.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unicode on FreeBSD Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.20.0004041723030.11214-100000@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us> In-Reply-To: <20000404200220.A82098@sasami.jurai.net>
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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
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