From: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob@tcd.ie>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 35507@debbugs.gnu.org, Andy Moreton <andrewjmoreton@gmail.com>
Subject: bug#35507: Gnus mojibakifies UTF-8 text/x-patch attachments from Thunderbird
Date: Thu, 02 May 2019 17:10:40 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8736lw25xb.fsf@tcd.ie> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83ftpwq270.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Thu, 2 May 2019 18:57:23 +0300")
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> From: Andy Moreton <andrewjmoreton@gmail.com>
>> Date: Thu, 02 May 2019 16:43:31 +0100
>>
>> > So yes, I think Noam is right, and 'undecided' is a better alternative here.
>>
>> That is arguing for the existing code, which does not work correctly.
>
> No, the existing code simply uses the undecoded string.
>
> What I argue for is to do this:
>
> diff --git a/lisp/gnus/mm-view.el b/lisp/gnus/mm-view.el
> index 1e1d264b99..173ebfab48 100644
> --- a/lisp/gnus/mm-view.el
> +++ b/lisp/gnus/mm-view.el
> @@ -475,7 +475,7 @@ mm-display-inline-fontify
> (charset
> (mm-decode-string text charset))
> (t
> - text)))
> + (mm-decode-string text 'undecided))))
> (let ((font-lock-verbose nil) ; font-lock is a bit too verbose.
> (enable-local-variables nil))
> ;; We used to set font-lock-mode-hook to nil to avoid enabling
>
>> I am disinclined to look any further at this, as nobody else appears to
>> be running the existing code before commenting, or testing the proposed
>> patch.
>
> Please don't be offended, there's no intent to offend you here. Your
> efforts are greatly appreciated. We are just discussing a small
> change to what you were proposing, see above.
>
> Or are you saying that using undecided as above doesn't do the job?
>
> (Sorry, I don't use Gnus, so to be able to reproduce the problem and
> test a proposed solution I need detailed instructions, I cannot easily
> do it myself without investing an inordinate amount of time.)
FWIW, I use Gnus, and your suggested change to mm-display-inline-fontify
fixes the inline display of the patch in the OP for me. BTW, the last
two cond branches can be merged following your change:
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diff --git a/lisp/gnus/mm-view.el b/lisp/gnus/mm-view.el
index 1e1d264b99..849488293a 100644
--- a/lisp/gnus/mm-view.el
+++ b/lisp/gnus/mm-view.el
@@ -472,10 +472,8 @@ mm-display-inline-fontify
(buffer-string)))
(coding-system
(decode-coding-string text coding-system))
- (charset
- (mm-decode-string text charset))
- (t
- text)))
+ (t
+ (mm-decode-string text (or charset 'undecided)))))
(let ((font-lock-verbose nil) ; font-lock is a bit too verbose.
(enable-local-variables nil))
;; We used to set font-lock-mode-hook to nil to avoid enabling
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Thanks,
--
Basil
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-05-02 16:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-04-30 19:20 bug#35507: Gnus mojibakifies UTF-8 text/x-patch attachments from Thunderbird Paul Eggert
2019-05-01 0:35 ` Andy Moreton
2019-05-01 15:22 ` Robert Pluim
2019-05-01 15:45 ` Andy Moreton
2019-05-01 16:42 ` Andy Moreton
2019-05-01 17:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-05-01 23:54 ` Andy Moreton
2019-05-02 3:07 ` Noam Postavsky
2019-05-02 7:17 ` Andy Moreton
2019-05-02 11:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-05-02 15:43 ` Andy Moreton
2019-05-02 15:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-05-02 16:08 ` Andy Moreton
2019-05-02 16:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-05-02 17:13 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2019-05-02 17:45 ` Andy Moreton
2019-05-02 16:10 ` Basil L. Contovounesios [this message]
2019-05-02 16:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-05-02 17:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-05-03 13:55 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2019-05-02 16:29 ` Robert Pluim
2019-05-02 16:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-05-02 12:01 ` Noam Postavsky
2019-05-02 15:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-05-03 14:02 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2019-05-03 15:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-05-03 15:20 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2019-05-01 17:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-05-02 6:35 ` Robert Pluim
2019-05-01 17:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-05-01 17:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-05-01 18:26 ` Paul Eggert
2019-05-01 19:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-05-01 19:47 ` Andreas Schwab
2019-05-01 19:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-05-02 23:24 ` Paul Eggert
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