Re: [VM] searching in mime encoded email

[Uday Reddy]

Julian Bradfield writes:

> I have no idea what you're talking about! VM makes no assumptions at
> all about the character set of its folders, except that that message
> headers are (as required) in ASCII - many of my patches over
> the last few years have been removing the accidental cases where it
> failed to enforce its agnosticism.

I hope you are right, but I can't be sure.


> VM folders are simply binary files. The character set of a given
> message - or subpart of a message - is determined by its MIME charset.
>
> If you wanted, you could transcode all non-utf-8 parts to utf-8, but
> the folder would still be a binary file; it would just be a binary
> file that happened also to be valid utf-8 as a whole.

You have lost me there.  What do you mean by "binary"?

Cheers,
Uday