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

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Packages: gnus, emacs;

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>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob <at> tcd.ie>
Cc: 35507 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, andrewjmoreton <at> gmail.com, npostavs <at> gmail.com
Subject: bug#35507: Gnus mojibakifies UTF-8 text/x-patch attachments from Thunderbird
Date: Fri, 03 May 2019 18:14:32 +0300

> From: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob <at> tcd.ie>
> Cc: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>,  <35507 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>,  <andrewjmoreton <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 03 May 2019 15:02:01 +0100
> 
> 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?

Because we have no reason to prefer UTF-8 in this case.  No one tells
us that x-patch will be predominantly encoded in UTF-8.

The RFC doesn't say that UTF-8 is the default, either, and
text/x-patch is not defined anywhere with that default.  Which means
there's no default, and in that case 'undecided' is better, because it
heeds to the preferences of the user.
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