On Tue, 4 Apr 2000, Anatoly Vorobey wrote:

> You mean, MIME multipart documents are better than Unicode if I, for instance, 
> want to handle Tolstoy's "War and Peace" with French quotes in the middle of 
> Russian sentences? 
> 
> I don't think so.

  This is what multipart format exists for -- to combine documents or 
sections in the document with possibly different metadata in the
headers. The idea of "mail attachment" appeared later.

-- 
Alex

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