From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
To: Andy Moreton <andrewjmoreton@gmail.com>
Cc: 35507@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#35507: Gnus mojibakifies UTF-8 text/x-patch attachments from Thunderbird
Date: Thu, 02 May 2019 10:13:07 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r29gbx0c.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <vz1woj8dekq.fsf@gmail.com> (Andy Moreton's message of "Thu, 02 May 2019 17:08:21 +0100")
Andy Moreton <andrewjmoreton@gmail.com> writes:
> On Thu 02 May 2019, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
>>> 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
>
> ok, that does appear to work for the example message in the original bug
> report. Please push this change and we can find out if it causes any
> other problems.
>
>>> 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.
>
> I'm not offended, but I did want to encourage others to run the code and
> test the results before adding further commentary.
>
>> 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.)
>
> The gnus-mock package on GNU ELPA may of some help for testing. However
> I have not used it myself, nor investigated if it's collection of test
> data contains a suitably malformed message.
It doesn't currently, but this is a perfect use-case for the package.
Shall I just add the up-thread message into the test data? Or can we
come up with a more-broken version of the message?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-05-02 17:13 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 [this message]
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
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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