Subject: Re: bug#35507: Gnus mojibakifies UTF-8 text/x-patch attachments from Thunderbird

From: Robert Pluim <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 02 May 2019 08:35:27 +0200

>>>>> On Wed, 01 May 2019 20:34:46 +0300, Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> said:

    >> From: Robert Pluim <[email-masked]> Date: Wed, 01 May 2019
    >> 17:22:19 +0200 Cc: [email-masked]
    >> 
    >> I think utf-8 is a good fallback if the message doesnʼt specify
    >> a charset. Itʼs not going to produce any worse effects than
    >> what we have now.

    Eli> What considerations led you to that conclusion?

If the message requires a charset, gnus might produce
mojibake. Assuming utf-8 reduces the chance of that happening. Itʼs
true that in particular cases a different charset should be used, but
in that case the existing assumption of ASCII is wrong as well.

Robert