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

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From: Frank Schmitt <ich <at> frank-schmitt.net>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Cc: emacs-pretest-bug <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#1174: 23.0.60; Some UTF-8 mails displaying wrongly in Emacs 23
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 09:24:20 +0200

Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>>   ;; 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?

So, what's the outcome? We found the place where the bug occurs, I can
confirm that with string-to-multibyte instead of string-as-multibyte
everything works as expected, what's next?

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