On 2004-06-06 16:05:18 -0400, der Mouse wrote:
> > The spec does not only allow each boundary (for nested multiparts) to
> > be different, it says that the boundaries MUST be different. (It
> > says "for obvious reasons" although they are not quite obvious - the
> > start and end of each nested multipart would be aÅ?unambiguous[%]
> > even with the same boundary for all levels, but it may make scanning
> > easier and add a bit of fault tolerance)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> This is true only if you are willing to rely on all multipart parts to
> be well-formed. I have seen a lot of spam which does not include the
> closing delimiter line; such dependence would make it impossible to
> attach such a spam to a spam complaint reliably.
Ok, so maybe it's a big bit of fault-tolerance.
(I wouldn't be surprised if some mailer would still be confused by a
missing end of a nested multipart, though)
> I think the MIME people knew what they were doing when they decreed
> that each level's delimiter must be different.
So do I. However, one person's "obvious reasons" may not be obvious to
the next.
> [%] I don't know what the second character of this word is supposed to
> be. The message I'm replying to was marked as UTF-8, in which case
> the octet sequence I see corresponds to LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Z WITH
> CARON, which makes no sense to me here.
Faszinating. Well, it is supposed to be a backspace (and it should have
deleted the "a" before it, which doesn't make sense, either). But I
obviously hit the key to the left of the backspace, which is ACUTE
ACCENT (0xB4 in Latin-1) on a German keyboard. Since the LANG variable
was erroneously set to en_US.iso885915, the mailer interpreted 0xB4 in
Latin-9, where it is a LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Z WITH CARON and dutifully
converted it to UTF-8.
hp
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