[Tcllib-devel] RE: [Tcllib-bugs] mime: -encoding 8bit

[Andreas K. <and...@Ac...>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Oliver Bienert [mailto:obi...@gm...]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2001 2:23 PM
> To: tcllib-devel; Andreas Kupries
> Subject: Re: [Tcllib-bugs] mime: -encoding 8bit
> 
> 
> > >Hello all,
> >
> > >consider the following code:
> > >(mv) 5 % mime::initialize -canonical text/html -encoding 8bit -param
> > >{charset iso-8859-1} -file test.html
> > >::mime::1
> > >(mv) 6 % mime::buildmessage ::mime::1
> > >Can't handle content encoding "8bit"
> >
> > >Am I missing something? The same appears, when I try to write 
> '-encoding
> > >7bit'. Do I need some additional packages?
> >
> > What encodings are 7bit and 8bit ? Can you give me references to
> > specifications
> > defining them ?
> >
> > I know only of 'not encoded', 'base64', and 'quoted-printable'.

> Hello Andreas,
> 
> The following text I found in a pine-users mailing list:
> 
> Here are details from the MIME
> standard (http://www.oac.uci.edu/indiv/ehood/MIME/MIME.html, MIME 
> Part One,
> Section 6):
> 
>     The Content-Transfer-Encoding values "7bit", "8bit", and "binary" all
> mean
>     that the identity (i.e. NO) encoding transformation has been 
> performed.

Thanks for this information. Please log this as bug in the tcllib tracker
at sourceforge, category mime or smtp, and assign it to me. I will take it
from there.

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	Andreas Kupries <and...@Ac...>
	Developer @ http://www.ActiveState.com