[Trac-tickets] Re: [The Trac Project] #1754: unnecessary base64 encoding in trac (ticket) emails

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#1754: unnecessary base64 encoding in trac (ticket) emails
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       Id:  1754     |      Status:  new                             
Component:  general  |    Modified:  Tue Jul  5 19:19:23 2005        
 Severity:  normal   |   Milestone:                                  
 Priority:  normal   |     Version:  devel                           
    Owner:  jonas    |    Reporter:  xris <xris*siliconmechanics*com>
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Comment (by eblot):

 Quoted Printable is a poor encoding system: 3 characters for any non ASCII
 byte: for any char code >= 128, QP generates a triplet "=XX", where XX is
 the hexadecimal value of the character code. This means up to a 200%
 increase of the message size.

 Conversely, Base64 maps every character (ASCII or not) from a 8bit range
 to a 6bit range. This means a 25% increase of the message size.

 QP is an acceptable encoding for (mostly western) european languages,
 where most characters are ASCII, with some percentage of special
 characters in the range [127..256].

 With other languages (not based on the roman/latin alphabet), every
 character code is > 256 in Unicode, which means that every UTF8 character
 would be translated into many ASCII character (from 6 to 9 ?).

 There's nothing wrong with UTF8/Base64. This is not an exotic combination,
 it is quite regular, I believe.

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Ticket URL: <http://projects.edgewall.com/trac/ticket/1754>
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