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: Need some help with Rmail/mbox Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2008 23:36:58 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87y71o4xw6.fsf@xemacs.org> <48D33A10.4040102@pajato.com> <871vzfi93y.fsf@xemacs.org> <03b276ff-e070-465e-9486-c02e4725a3e0@broken.deisui.org> <1bd9e4e5-9349-438b-92af-c2a6293491e7@broken.deisui.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1222054641 28302 80.91.229.12 (22 Sep 2008 03:37:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 03:37:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: pmr@pajato.com, stephen@xemacs.org, ueno@unixuser.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 22 05:38:17 2008 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 4.50) id 1KhcFb-00075k-94 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Sep 2008 05:38:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51453 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KhcEZ-0007YF-9R for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 21 Sep 2008 23:37:11 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KhcEU-0007Wv-2a for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Sep 2008 23:37:06 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KhcEQ-0007Wh-RO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Sep 2008 23:37:05 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=58146 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KhcEQ-0007We-MM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Sep 2008 23:37:02 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.pppoe.ca ([206.248.154.182]:34732 helo=ironport2-out.teksavvy.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KhcEN-0004kt-Hi; Sun, 21 Sep 2008 23:36:59 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AhYFAMyv1kjO+KDT/2dsb2JhbACBXbJ5gWaBBA X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.32,443,1217822400"; d="scan'208";a="27211141" Original-Received: from 206-248-160-211.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO ceviche.home) ([206.248.160.211]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP; 21 Sep 2008 23:36:58 -0400 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 7D2E4B40B1; Sun, 21 Sep 2008 23:36:58 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Mon, 22 Sep 2008 06:07:34 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.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:104022 Archived-At: >> 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