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mumi does not correctly display (some?) non-ascii characters

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From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>
To: Noé Lopez <noe <at> xn--no-cja.eu>
Cc: 69381 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#69381: mumi does not correctly display (some?) non-ascii characters
Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2025 23:54:41 +0900

Hi Noé,

Noé Lopez <noe <at> noé.eu> writes:

> Small update,
>
> I’ve investigated the issue in fibers and I now blame the guile web
> library for the issue.  Apparently it sets the port to ISO-8859-1
> encoding each time you call read-request, but it acts like « yeah don’t
> worry just use utf-8 for your body » in the docs.
>
> That’s fine UNLESS you use chunked transfers (omitting content-length in
> fibers), in which case it just decides to blow up :///// (it assumes one
> character = one byte)
>
> In the end I’m pretty sure any of this could have been avoided by just
> not replacing every character with question marks.  Had it kept the
> invalid bytes intact they would have translated back with no issue.

Nice investigation!  Did you create an issue at bug-guile <at> gnu.org?  
don't see it on the tracker.  Or perhaps this could be tackled from the
angle of fibers?  For example by adding a new failing test reproducing
the problem to its test suite, and going from there.

-- 
Thanks,
Maxim

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