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23.0.60; Some UTF-8 mails displaying wrongly in Emacs 23

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Message #255 received at 1174 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Simon Josefsson <simon <at> josefsson.org>
To: Frank Schmitt <ich <at> frank-schmitt.net>
Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>, ding <at> gnus.org,
        1174 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#1174: 23.0.60; Some UTF-8 mails displaying wrongly in Emacs 23
Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2008 13:18:21 +0100

Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane <at> imap.cc> writes:

> 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.

I don't recall, but people should notice relatively quickly if there are
problems in this area (wrong display of non-ascii) so feel free to
revert the patch or apply another patch instead.  It needs to be tested
under Emacs 22 too, though, if it is installed in the Gnus CVS.

/Simon

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