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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: pmr@pajato.com, stephen@xemacs.org, ueno@unixuser.org,
	emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Need some help with Rmail/mbox
Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2008 23:36:58 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvhc887sz4.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <u63ooq3nt.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Mon, 22 Sep 2008 06:07:34 +0300")

>> No, I don't have such an explanation, except that the most natural input
>> for decoding is a unibyte (string|buffer) and the most natural output is
>> a multibyte (string|buffer).  I'd expect that to be pretty obvious.

> That would mean Rmail/mbox will need to use another unibyte scratch
> buffer for decoding MIME-encoded text: first qp- or b64-decode it into
> another unibyte buffer, then decode-coding-region from there to the
> (multibyte) display buffer.

Sure,


        Stefan




  reply	other threads:[~2008-09-22  3:36 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
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 [this message]
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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