GNU bug report logs - #4623
23.1.50; rmail changes encoding of characters on save

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Markus Rost <rost <at> math.uni-bielefeld.de>

Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2009 15:00:05 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 4623 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#4623: 23.1.50; rmail changes encoding of characters on save
Date: Mon, 07 Dec 2009 14:25:37 -0500

>> That would be fine, yes.  I'd suggest to use an rmail-coding-system
>> variable as the canonical place to store the coding system used for the
>> currently shown message, use it in rmail-reply in preference to
>> buffer-file-coding-system, and simply copy rmail-coding-system to
>> buffer-file-coding-system whenever necessary, such as in
>> after-save-hook.

> Well, I did precisely that, as you could see, but then Markus pointed
> out that a single global variable will not work when there are more
> than one Rmail buffer.

Of course, just like buffer-file-coding-system, it should be buffer-local.


        Stefan
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