From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: pmr@pajato.com, stephen@xemacs.org,
Daiki Ueno <ueno@unixuser.org>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Need some help with Rmail/mbox
Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2008 09:34:38 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvfxnt4ofi.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <uskrvoxzt.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sat, 20 Sep 2008 14:30:46 +0300")
> We were discussing Rmail/mbox. In that context, whenever you need to
> decode a message body, the buffer needs to be in unibyte mode. That's
> it. I think this is simple enough for anyone who writes related code.
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.
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).
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-21 13:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-18 16:02 Need some help with Rmail/mbox Paul Michael Reilly
2008-09-19 3:28 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-09-19 5:35 ` Paul Michael Reilly
2008-09-19 9:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-09-20 7:12 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-09-20 10:04 ` Daiki Ueno
2008-09-20 10:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-09-20 10:46 ` Daiki Ueno
2008-09-20 11:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-09-20 23:33 ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-09-21 3:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-09-21 13:34 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2008-09-21 17:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-09-21 19:26 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-09-21 20:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-09-21 22:07 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-09-22 3:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-09-22 3:36 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-09-22 3:41 ` Daiki Ueno
2008-09-22 3:58 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-09-22 18:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-09-22 4:31 ` Kenichi Handa
2008-09-22 14:10 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-09-24 0:56 ` Kenichi Handa
2008-09-24 2:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-09-24 3:48 ` Kenichi Handa
2008-09-22 15:24 ` Paul Michael Reilly
2008-09-20 13:48 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-09-21 0:57 ` Daiki Ueno
2008-09-22 9:14 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-09-19 4:30 ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-09-19 4:30 ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-09-19 9:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
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