<defvar name="default-mime-charset">
<p>
-Symbol to indicate default value of <dref>MIME-charset</dref>.
+Symbol to indicate default value of <dref>MIME charset</dref>.
<p>
-It is used when MIME-charset is not specified.
+It is used when MIME charset is not specified.
<p>
It is originally variable of APEL.
</defvar>
<h2> Header encoding/decoding
<node> Header encoder/decoder
<p>
-<defun name="eword-encode-header">
- <opts> code-conversion separator
+<defun name="eword-decode-header">
+ <opts> code-conversion separator
<p>
Decode MIME encoded-words in header fields.
<p>
-If <var>code-conversion</var> is <code>nil</code>, it decodes only
-encoded-words. If it is mime-charset, it decodes non-ASCII bit
-patterns as the mime-charset. Otherwise it decodes non-ASCII bit
-patterns as the default-mime-charset.
+If <var>code-conversion</var> is <code>nil</code>, only encoded-words
+are decoded. If <var>code-conversion</var> is a <dref>MIME
+charset</dref>, non-ASCII bit patterns are decoded as the MIME
+charset. Otherwise non-ASCII bit patterns are decoded as the
+<code>default-mime-charset</code>. <cf node="entity formatting">
<p>
-If <var>separator</var> is not nil, it is used as header separator.
+If <var>separator</var> is not <code>nil</code>, it is used as header
+separator.
</defun>
<defun name="eword-encode-header">
- <opts> code-conversion
+ <opts> code-conversion
<p>
Encode header fields to network representation, such as MIME
encoded-word.
<p>
-It refer variable <code>eword-field-encoding-method-alist</code>.
+Each field is encoded as corresponding method specified by variable
+<code>eword-field-encoding-method-alist</code>.
</defun>
+<defvar name="eword-field-encoding-method-alist">
+<p>
+Association list to specify field encoding method. Each element looks
+like (FIELD . METHOD).
+<p>
+If METHOD is <code>mime</code>, the FIELD will be encoded into MIME
+format (encoded-word).
+<p>
+If METHOD is <code>nil</code>, the FIELD will not be encoded.
+<p>
+If METHOD is a MIME charset, the FIELD will be encoded as the charset
+when it must be convert into network-code.
+<p>
+Otherwise the FIELD will be encoded as variable
+<code>default-mime-charset</code> when it must be convert into
+network-code.
+</defvar>
+
<h1> Various Customization
<node> custom