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

[Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>]

On Jan 08 2025, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> Cc: 75397@debbugs.gnu.org
>> From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
>> 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.
>
> I must be missing something here, because I don't see what you
> describe above:

It is about MIME encoding.

>   (defun message-dont-send ()
>     "Don't send the message you have been editing.
>   Instead, just auto-save the buffer and then bury it."
>     (interactive nil message-mode)
>     (set-buffer-modified-p t)
>     (save-buffer)  <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
>     (let ((actions message-postpone-actions))
>       (message-bury (current-buffer))
>       (message-do-actions actions)))

This just saves the raw buffer contents, but
gnus-summary-resend-message-edit expects it to be a proper RFC2822 mail,
with suitable MIME headers.

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