Re: [Mailman-Developers] CTE "base64" due to UTF-8?

At 12:40 PM +0900 2004-07-22, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

So choosing intelligently would involve a count of the entire part to be encoded. Yuck.

Which is not far from what is done by sendmail when deciding to 

convert 8bit to either QP or Base64. It doesn't look at the entire bodypart, but it does look at a good-size chunk of the first part, and compare how many characters have the high bit set versus those that don't.

If only a very few characters have the high bit set, then it 

chooses QP. If many of the characters have the high bit set, then it chooses Base64.

I'm still not convinced that Mailman is actually doing the 

conversion here, but there are ways to try to address this subject.

As is typical for most open-source projects, patches are welcomed.

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