GNU bug report logs - #39506
mm-shr unibyte assumption

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Packages: emacs, gnus;

Reported by: dick <dick.r.chiang <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2020 00:41:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: notabug

Done: dick <dick.r.chiang <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #24 received at 39506 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 39506 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, dick.r.chiang <at> gmail.com
Subject: Re: bug#39506: patch
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2020 14:24:55 +0100

Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> So I suspect that the source of your problem is earlier, where some code
> incorrectly decodes some content too early.  Hence the need to better
> understand where those chinese chars come from.

Yes, I think that's correct -- the mm handle buffers should contain
bytes only, so it would be interesting to know how an mm handle buffer
ended up containing characters.

Dick, do you have a way to reproduce that bug?

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