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: Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane <at> imap.cc>
To: Simon Josefsson <jas <at> extundo.com>
Cc: Frank Schmitt <ich <at> frank-schmitt.net>,
        Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>, ding <at> gnus.org,
        1174 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#1174: 23.0.60; Some UTF-8 mails displaying wrongly in Emacs 23
Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2008 13:08:20 +0100

On Fri, Oct 17 2008, Frank Schmitt wrote:

> Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane <at> imap.cc> writes:
>
>> On Fri, Oct 17 2008, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>>
>>>>   ;; 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

Simon, could you please clarify why you reverted Stefan's change in
`nnimap-demule'?  It breaks reading UTF-8 articles via nnimap.el in
Emacs 23.

>>> Who's this Simon who reverted my change without even explaining why?
>>
>> The one who's listed as the author of nnimap.el (cc-ed).
>>
>>>> which is called at several places. And this breaks it. If I change
>>>> this function so that string is not changed, my mails are displayed
>>>> correctly.
>>
>> Does it work correctly when using Stefan's version?
>> ( s/string-as-multibyte/string-to-multibyte/ ...)
>>
>> (defun nnimap-demule (string)
>>   ;; 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
>>   (funcall (if (and (fboundp 'string-to-multibyte)
>> 		    (subrp (symbol-function 'string-to-multibyte)))
>> 	       'string-to-multibyte
>> 	     'identity)
>> 	   (or string "")))
>
> Yes, it does.

Bye, Reiner.
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