On Wed, 13 Dec 2017 21:03:27 -0500 "Bill Cole" <mdlist-20140424 at billmail.scconsult.com> wrote: > It is entirely possible (as stated explicitly in RFC2045) for a MIME > entity to contain unencoded binary data: any arbitrary stream of > bytes. Stream of *bytes* yes. But Perl native characters > 0xFF are not bytes. Regards, Dianne.