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Gnus gratuiously messes with the encoding of attachments

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: David Kastrup <dak <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 13808 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#13808: Gnus gratuiously messes with the encoding of attachments
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 17:55:21 -0800

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> writes:

> I just tried sending out a utf-8 file, and Message decided it was 8859,
> so it's totally garbled:
>
> --=-=-=
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
> Content-Disposition: inline; filename=foo.txt
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
>
> QmzDpWLDpnINCg==
> --=-=-=
>
> Yuck.
>
> Hm...  what's determining the charset in the file, anyway?

It's calling `find-coding-systems-region', which just returns
`(undecided)'.  Er.  So how is this supposed to work, really?

How Emacs detects coding systems remains a mystery to me...  Anybody
have any insights here?

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