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>

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Andy Moreton <andrewjmoreton <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 35507 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#35507: Gnus mojibakifies UTF-8 text/x-patch attachments from Thunderbird
Date: Wed, 01 May 2019 20:36:41 +0300

> From: Andy Moreton <andrewjmoreton <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 01 May 2019 17:42:18 +0100
> 
> +		     (mm-decode-string text 'utf-8))))

As I said, I'm not sure we should do this, let alone unconditionally
force UTF-8 here, but if we must, why not use decode-coding-string?
Do we really need the mm-* stuff?
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