[kdepim-users] Attaching binary files

[Ingo Klöcker]

On Wednesday 16 December 2009, bill purvis wrote:
> I've recently upgraded to 1.12.2 and today needed to email a couple
> of binary files to someone. When the selection window pops up I
> noticed that it now has an item to define the character encoding, but
> there is no entry for 'binary'. Is there a good reason for this? Does
> it actually have any significant effect? What is the recommendation
> for shipping binary files as attachements?

The character encoding is meaningless for binary data. It is only 
relevant for plain text files because text files usually do not contain 
information about the encoding used in the text file.


Regards,
Ingo
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