Solutions for the charset issue

[Matthias Andree]

On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Boris 'pi' Piwinger wrote:

> > Is there a flex-like tool that can deal with UTF-8?
> 
> How about recode? I don't know if it can be used here, though.

I never bothered to look at the recode and iconv libraries. Not sure
which is better.

> Yes, slower, but *much* stronger. I don't think, we need full MIME
> support. Understanding QP is pretty simple. Base64 isn't hard either,
> but might be delayed a bit longer I think. That should be it.

We need to tell MIME parts apart, because each can have its own
character set.

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Matthias Andree