[Python-Dev] PEP 383: Non-decodable Bytes in System Character Interfaces (original) (raw)

Stephen J. Turnbull stephen at xemacs.org
Tue Apr 28 06:43:12 CEST 2009

Tony Nelson writes:

At 16:09 +0000 04/27/2009, Antoine Pitrou wrote:

Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen xemacs.org> writes:

I hate to break it to you, but most stages of mail processing have very little to do with SMTP. In particular, processing MIME attachments often requires dealing with file names.

AFAIK, the file name is only there as an indication for the user when he wants to save the file. If it's garbled a bit, no big deal.

Nobody said we were at the stage of saving the file!

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