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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Re: PATCH: removing attachment dialog
From:       Michael =?iso-8859-1?q?H=E4ckel?= <haeckel () kde ! org>
Date:       2002-01-02 10:43:56
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On Wednesday 02 January 2002 11:24, Marc Mutz wrote:
>
> Unfortunately, it's much more complicated than that. Think text/plain
> with non-latin charsets (which almost surely want to be encoded in
> b64). Think application/postscript, whose v1 doesn't need any encoding
> at all. Think text/x-diff, which might or might not require encoding.
>
> The only sensible approach is to count character frequency and base the
> decision on the result. But that's not going to happen for current
> KMail, at least not from me. For KMime, I will try to have this,
> though.

For RFC2047 encoding we already have some guessing code for the optimal 
encoding.
If more than 1/6 of the characters need encoding base64 is more effective than 
quoted printable.

Regards,
Michael Häckel
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