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From: Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr>
Date: 12 Sep 1997 17:34:45 +0200
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David Bakhash <cadet@MIT.EDU> writes:

> I am fixing this now.  I thought it over and decided that strokes does
> not deserve to have its own MIME type.

Why not?

> Instead, strokes users will simply use `strokes-encode-buffer' and
> `strokes-decode-buffer'.  That's it.

But the whole point of MIME types is that you can tell VM (or TM, or
whatever) that, upon encountering application/x-strokes MIME type it
should call `strokes-decode-buffer'.

You needn't worry about transfer encoding, either -- it will be
handled by MIME recipients separately from the type.

> to be useful for chinese/japanese.  This graphical stuff is just
> temporary until strokes really does guesture recognition.  (though I
> always say that the graphical stuff is nice because it takes care of all 
> the languages in one fell swoop, and it preserves the authors actual
> handwriting.

Another reason against it is that mouse strokes aren't good for
handwriting.  If we all used digitizing pads, maybe...

> (p.s. If I *did* make a MIME-type, can someone give me a pointer on
> what to RTFM to make it MIME-able?)

You should probably hook into various MIME engines (VM and TM come to
mind) and make them use `application/x-strokes' for MIME type.  Also,
you should instruct them to decode the type using
`strokes-decode-region' or something.  Package authors will probably
give you additional info.

BTW, how hard would it be to provide a simple-minded translator so
that the people who read such MIME-ified strokes in non-Emacs
mail-readers can see them?

-- 
Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> | Student at FER Zagreb, Croatia
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`VI' - An editor used by those heretics that don't subscribe to
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