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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Message #50 received at 4623 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 4623 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#4623: 23.1.50; rmail changes encoding of characters on save
Date: Fri, 04 Dec 2009 14:48:41 -0500

>> Most likely we need to do something in the rmail code that calls
>> buffer-swap-text.

> Not sure what you had in mind.  buffer-swap-text is not called
> (AFAICS) between "C-x C-s" and the return to top-level.  So how can
> anything we do in rmail-swap-buffers help here?

Oh, I see, it's because setting coding-system-for-write affect the
buffer-file-coding-system choice which is later saved into the
"original" buffer, which in this case is the displayed buffer.

Hmm...

Let's take a step back: when/why does buffer-file-coding-system matter
in the RMAIL display buffer?


        Stefan
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