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>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #14 received at submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Andy Moreton <andrewjmoreton <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#35507: Gnus mojibakifies UTF-8 text/x-patch attachments from
 Thunderbird
Date: Wed, 01 May 2019 16:45:28 +0100

On Wed 01 May 2019, Robert Pluim wrote:

>>>>>> On Wed, 01 May 2019 01:35:09 +0100, Andy Moreton <andrewjmoreton <at> gmail.com> said:
>     Andy> After a bit of experimenting, this minimal patch appears to
>     Andy> fix things.  Should this also allow the user to choose the
>     Andy> charset if none is specified, or just hardwire it to utf-8 ?
>
> 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.

Looking at this a bit more, the " *mm*" temp buffers produced when
decoding the MIME parts all seems to have the right coding, so my
previous patch looks wrong.

The problem may be in `mm-display-inline-fontify' when it tries to
choose a charset or coding system to display the MIME part inline.

    AndyM
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