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28.0.50; Reading ephemeral web-based groups in Gnus doesn't handle 8bit encoding correctly

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 28.0.50; Reading ephemeral web-based groups in Gnus doesn't handle
 8bit encoding correctly
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2020 14:42:57 +0200

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As a test case:

(gnus-read-ephemeral-emacs-bug-group 35885)

Select an article by Sebastian Urban that has non-ASCII characters.
These have content-type utf-8, and content-transfer-encoding 8bit, and
they display like this:

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I suspect that URL is using a multibyte buffer somewhere, and that leads
to ... problems.


In GNU Emacs 28.0.50 (build 52, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.24.20, cairo version 1.16.0)
 of 2020-08-19 built on xo
Repository revision: 9c17df59a38b71166c8e4644ab525e791f7ff21c
Repository branch: master
Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.12008000
System Description: Debian GNU/Linux bullseye/sid

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