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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Message #38 received at 35507 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 35507 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Subject: Re: bug#35507: Gnus mojibakifies UTF-8 text/x-patch attachments from
 Thunderbird
Date: Wed, 01 May 2019 21:47:58 +0200

On Mai 01 2019, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> wrote:

> I'm okay with having a default that's customizable.  I also think Gnus
> should have a feature that allows the user to request "re-decoding" of
> a message part, because no matter how smart are we and our defaults,
> they will sometimes fail.

That already exists (K C runs the command
gnus-article-view-part-as-charset).

Andreas.

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