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Gnus doesn’t display EBCDIC encoded mails correctly

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>, 33612 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, qsx <at> chaotikum.eu
Subject: bug#33612: Gnus doesn’t display EBCDIC encoded mails correctly
Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2019 15:14:32 +0200

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
>> Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2018 19:03:45 +0100
>> Cc: 33612 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
>> 
>> 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.
>
> Right, I just added IBM038 on master.

And I used the test case posted here, and Gnus indeed now displays this
message correctly.  :-)

So I'm closing the bug report.

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