From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: bug#7517: 24.0.50; repeated crash under Mac OS X Date: Sat, 01 Jan 2011 12:11:26 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87vd2dyzfj.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <4D1B22A1.6080202@swipnet.se> <4D1B27AF.7010701@swipnet.se> <4D1C6E7D.2040300@swipnet.se> <4D1D0172.8080404@swipnet.se> <4D1DB555.5080002@swipnet.se> <4D1DBD4A.6010303@swipnet.se> <83d3oiaysj.fsf@gnu.org> <4D1DD655.1040809@swipnet.se> <83aajmaxme.fsf@gnu.org> <4D1E5987.2000502@swipnet.se> <83mxnkq1ej.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1293901901 11853 80.91.229.12 (1 Jan 2011 17:11:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2011 17:11:41 +0000 (UTC) Cc: u.s.reddy@cs.bham.ac.uk, user.emacs@gmail.com, cyd@stupidchicken.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, 7517@debbugs.gnu.org, Jan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Dj=E4rv?= To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 01 18:11:36 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PZ4zP-0003wk-Q7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 01 Jan 2011 18:11:35 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52468 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PZ4zO-0006wP-TG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 01 Jan 2011 12:11:34 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=50859 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PZ4zL-0006wJ-Ab for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 01 Jan 2011 12:11:32 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PZ4zK-0002UW-C6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 01 Jan 2011 12:11:31 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.181]:62594 helo=ironport2-out.pppoe.ca) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PZ4zJ-0002UE-0H; Sat, 01 Jan 2011 12:11:29 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AvsEAHvuHk1Ld/TY/2dsb2JhbACkRHS7aYVKBIRljhs X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.60,260,1291611600"; d="scan'208";a="86873868" Original-Received: from 75-119-244-216.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([75.119.244.216]) by ironport2-out.pppoe.ca with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 01 Jan 2011 12:11:27 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 3148258D59; Sat, 1 Jan 2011 12:11:27 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <83mxnkq1ej.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sat, 01 Jan 2011 14:00:36 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:134118 Archived-At: > Other than that, I think VM should try to decide the encoding from the > context, such as the encoding of the message body. It can also keep the text as raw 8bit bytes, since such unlabeled non-ascii chars in a email header as invalid anyway. It's up to the VM maintainer to decide what's best for its users. We just have to make sure we don't crash even if we get weird chars. Stefan