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: Andy Moreton <andrewjmoreton <at> gmail.com>
To: 35507 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#35507: Gnus mojibakifies UTF-8 text/x-patch attachments from	Thunderbird
Date: Thu, 02 May 2019 18:45:30 +0100

On Thu 02 May 2019, Eric Abrahamsen wrote:

> Andy Moreton <andrewjmoreton <at> gmail.com> writes:
>> The gnus-mock package on GNU ELPA may of some help for testing. However
>> I have not used it myself, nor investigated if it's collection of test
>> data contains a suitably malformed message.
>
> It doesn't currently, but this is a perfect use-case for the package.
> Shall I just add the up-thread message into the test data? Or can we
> come up with a more-broken version of the message?

Something similar, but any test data should be anonymised so that it
does not contain personal details or real email addresses.

    AndyM
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