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Re: Need some help with Rmail/mbox
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Need some help with Rmail/mbox |
Date: |
Sun, 21 Sep 2008 23:56:55 +0300 |
> From: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden
> Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2008 15:26:38 -0400
>
> >> The only reliable way to do decoding in buffers is by using
> >> the `destination' argument to decode-coding-region so that you can
> >> decode from a unibyte buffer into a multibyte buffer.
>
> > Why is that the only reliable method, and what do you suggest as the
> > value of `destination' argument for it to DTRT?
>
> As I said in my message: use the dest arg so as to "decode from
> a unibyte buffer into a multibyte buffer", so `destination' should be
> ... a multibyte buffer.
And the source a unibyte one?
> As for why it's the only reliable method, it's because:
>
> >> Dealing with "bytes in a multibyte buffer" or with "non-ascii chars in
> >> a unibyte buffer" (as is necessarily the case either as source or as
> >> destination if you do the decoding in-place) is just too delicate in my
> >> experience (and of course, it's also somewhat inefficient).
>
> I'm not sure which part of the above paragraph is unclear.
The fact that other methods are not 100% reliable does not yet mean
that this one is. I thought you had a more specific explanation why
this method is reliable.
- Re: Need some help with Rmail/mbox, (continued)
- Re: Need some help with Rmail/mbox, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2008/09/20
- Re: Need some help with Rmail/mbox, Daiki Ueno, 2008/09/20
- Re: Need some help with Rmail/mbox, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/09/20
- Re: Need some help with Rmail/mbox, Daiki Ueno, 2008/09/20
- Re: Need some help with Rmail/mbox, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/09/20
- Re: Need some help with Rmail/mbox, Richard M. Stallman, 2008/09/20
- Re: Need some help with Rmail/mbox, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/09/20
- Re: Need some help with Rmail/mbox, Stefan Monnier, 2008/09/21
- Re: Need some help with Rmail/mbox, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/09/21
- Re: Need some help with Rmail/mbox, Stefan Monnier, 2008/09/21
- Re: Need some help with Rmail/mbox,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: Need some help with Rmail/mbox, Stefan Monnier, 2008/09/21
- Re: Need some help with Rmail/mbox, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/09/21
- Re: Need some help with Rmail/mbox, Stefan Monnier, 2008/09/21
- Re: Need some help with Rmail/mbox, Daiki Ueno, 2008/09/21
- Re: Need some help with Rmail/mbox, Stefan Monnier, 2008/09/21
- Re: Need some help with Rmail/mbox, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/09/22
- Re: Need some help with Rmail/mbox, Kenichi Handa, 2008/09/22
- Re: Need some help with Rmail/mbox, Stefan Monnier, 2008/09/22
- Re: Need some help with Rmail/mbox, Kenichi Handa, 2008/09/23
- Re: Need some help with Rmail/mbox, Stefan Monnier, 2008/09/23