GNU bug report logs - #33612
Gnus doesn’t display EBCDIC encoded mails correctly

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Packages: gnus, emacs;

Reported by: Thomas Schneider <qsx <at> chaotikum.eu>

Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2018 16:35:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: fixed

Found in version 5.13

Fixed in version 27.1

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
To: Thomas Schneider <qsx <at> chaotikum.eu>
Cc: 33612 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#33612: Gnus doesn’t display EBCDIC encoded mails correctly
Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2018 19:03:45 +0100

On Dez 04 2018, Thomas Schneider <qsx <at> chaotikum.eu> wrote:

> So while the decoding routines work fine on more common charsets like
> UTF-8 and ISO 8859-1, they fail on EBCDIC.  Not something likely to be
> encountered in real life, but still.

Looks like Emacs doesn't know about IBM038 aka EBCDIC-INT.  Other EBCDIC
encodings should work, though.

Andreas.

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