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27.0.50; encode-time apparently stopped working

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Message #40 received at 35502-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 35502-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>,
 Marcin Borkowski <mbork <at> mbork.pl>
Subject: Re: bug#35502: 27.0.50; encode-time apparently stopped working
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2019 12:40:48 -0700

On 4/30/19 11:00 AM, Robert Pluim wrote:
> That patch fixes roundtripping for me, thanks.

Thanks for checking; closing the bug report.

> I thought commit messages were supposed to be ASCII only?

As far as I can tell we've been putting UTF-8 into commit messages for
fifteen years, and standardized on UTF-8 (as opposed to other non-ASCII
encodings) in 2015; there's a note in the CONTRIBUTE file to that effect.

>     That shows as "\xe2\x80\x99" for me in Gnus.

That charset botch is due to this Thunderbird bug:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1167982

I try to work around the bug by hand but forgot this time. Arguably Gnus
should do better here, since this is a reasonably-common problem that
has been biting people for years. I filed a Gnus problem report here:

https://debbugs.gnu.org/35507

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