GNU bug report logs - #1174
23.0.60; Some UTF-8 mails displaying wrongly in Emacs 23

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: usenet <at> frank-schmitt.net

Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 20:30:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Frank Schmitt <ich <at> frank-schmitt.net>
Cc: 1174 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>,
        schwab <at> suse.de, bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org, emacs-pretest-bug <at> gnu.org
Subject: bug#1174: 23.0.60; Some UTF-8 mails displaying wrongly in Emacs 23
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 11:39:53 -0400

>   ;; BEWARE: we used to use string-as-multibyte here which is braindead
>   ;; because it will turn accidental emacs-mule-valid byte sequences
>   ;; into multibyte chars.  --Stef
>   ;; Reverted, braindead got 7.5 out of 10 on imdb, so it can't be
>   ;; that bad. --Simon

Who's this Simon who reverted my change without even explaining why?


        Stefan
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