From: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob@tcd.ie>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 35507@debbugs.gnu.org, andrewjmoreton@gmail.com, npostavs@gmail.com
Subject: bug#35507: Gnus mojibakifies UTF-8 text/x-patch attachments from Thunderbird
Date: Fri, 03 May 2019 16:20:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bm0jef9o.fsf@tcd.ie> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83k1f7muxz.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Fri, 3 May 2019 18:14:32 +0300")
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> From: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob@tcd.ie>
>> Cc: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com>, <35507@debbugs.gnu.org>, <andrewjmoreton@gmail.com>
>> Date: Fri, 03 May 2019 15:02:01 +0100
>>
>> Question following an initial reading of (info "(elisp) Coding System
>> Basics"): would it be better in this case to use prefer-utf-8 instead of
>> undecided? If not, why not?
>
> Because we have no reason to prefer UTF-8 in this case. No one tells
> us that x-patch will be predominantly encoded in UTF-8.
>
> The RFC doesn't say that UTF-8 is the default, either, and
> text/x-patch is not defined anywhere with that default. Which means
> there's no default, and in that case 'undecided' is better, because it
> heeds to the preferences of the user.
Right, thanks for explaining.
--
Basil
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-05-03 15:20 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
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 [this message]
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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