GNU bug report logs - #75397
29.4; GNUS message mode lacks Cyrillic support (GNU/Linux)

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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
To: "Nickolai Dobrynin" <ndobrynin <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 75397 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#75397: 29.4; GNUS message mode lacks Cyrillic support
 (GNU/Linux)
Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2025 10:36:34 +0100

On Jan 06 2025, Nickolai Dobrynin wrote:

> 1. Type M-gnus to start GNUS.
> 2. Start composing a message by pressing 'm'.
> 3. Enter the first, say, 5 letters of the Cyrillic alphabet, i.e. абвгд.
> 4. Press C-c C-d to save the draft.
> 5. Press S D e to resume editing.
> 6. Bizarrely enough, instead of "абвгд", you will see a sequence of digits "01234".
>
> Is this even real?? By the way, this does not occur with ordinary text
> files. And everything works fine in the view mode inside the draft
> group. Pressing S D e, on the other hand, makes things go haywire.

The problem is that message-dont-send doesn't encode the message when it
saves it.  gnus-summary-resend-message-edit assumes that the stored
message is encoded and goes through an unibyte buffer while trying to
decode it, which then strips off all non-ascii bits from the characters.

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