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bug#13808: Gnus gratuiously messes with the encoding of attachments
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Lars Ingebrigtsen |
Subject: |
bug#13808: Gnus gratuiously messes with the encoding of attachments |
Date: |
Wed, 25 Jan 2017 16:58:05 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> The mml encoding code is headache-inducing, probably because it was
> written to support non-Mule and XEmacs and modern Emacs at the same
> time. So you have stuff like:
>
> (defun mm-find-charset-region (b e)
> "Return a list of Emacs charsets in the region B to E."
> (cond
> ((mm-multibyte-p)
>
> [...]
>
> (t
> ;; We are in a unibyte buffer, so we futz around a bit.
>
> [...]
>
> (car (last (assq mail-parse-charset
> mm-mime-mule-charset-alist)))))
> (list 'ascii (or charset 'latin-iso8859-1)))))))))
>
> which is part of what's biting us here.
>
> I wonder whether the best solution here is to just rewrite the mml code
> completely. There's so much... magic in the various code paths.
And I think the answer is... yes. I'll start rewriting. Shouldn't be
... that much code, should it? :-)
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