GNU bug report logs - #35507
Gnus mojibakifies UTF-8 text/x-patch attachments from Thunderbird

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Packages: emacs, gnus;

Reported by: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2019 19:22:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: fixed

Found in version 27

Done: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob <at> tcd.ie>

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From: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob <at> tcd.ie>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 35507 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, andrewjmoreton <at> gmail.com, Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>
Subject: bug#35507: Gnus mojibakifies UTF-8 text/x-patch attachments from Thunderbird
Date: Fri, 03 May 2019 15:02:01 +0100

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

>> From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>
>> Date: Thu, 02 May 2019 08:01:38 -0400
>> Cc: 35507 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
>> 
>> I understood from Paul's followup in https://debbugs.gnu.org/35507#32
>> that the report is mainly about the case where there is a Content-Type
>> header with a charset field within the body of the attachment.
>
> Yes, that's my understanding as well.  So I guess Gnus should try
> gleaning the charset from there.  The 'undecided' stuff is for when it
> fails, I think.

Question following an initial reading of (info "(elisp) Coding System
Basics"): would it be better in this case to use prefer-utf-8 instead of
undecided?  If not, why not?

Thanks,

-- 
Basil
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