On 17 Oct 2019, at 08:35, Bill Cole <[email protected]> wrote: > On 17 Oct 2019, at 7:51, @lbutlr wrote: >> Also., of course, some plaintext messages still have to be en=E2=85=BDoded= >> . >> >> Like this one. > > But not always in Base64. :)
True, the sender rarely has any control over how the message is encoded. > Many clients only do QP or only do Base64 when the content makes it > necessary, some make a judgment call based (usually) on the frequency of > non-ASCII characters. From a code standpoint, just doing Base64 is simpler > and more robust. I would love to see an end to QP, it’s a mess and it breaks too frequently. -- I laugh in the face of danger. Then I hide until it goes away.
