From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: mark.lillibridge@hp.com
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Rmail and the raw-text coding system
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 14:19:10 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvy66jqr2y.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <qmhhbd88pna.fsf@hp.com> (Mark Lillibridge's message of "Sun, 16 Jan 2011 14:11:53 -0800")
>> > I assume it did so because the buffer contained "invalid" code
>> > points.
>> That would mean that the BABYL file is corrupted. Is it?
> Not as far as I can tell. Weird characters are displayed for some
> messages, but that is normal with Rmail 22 as it doesn't understand
> MIME. I believe the use of raw-text does not lose data.
The BABYL file is supposed to use the emacs-mule encoding. So if it
contains invalid emacs-mule byte sequences, it presumably means
it's corrupted. Of course, maybe they are valid sequences which
Emacs23/24 rejects by mistake, or maybe there's yet something else
going on.
But AFAIK BABYL files use a single encoding for the whole file, and
since around Emacs-21.x that single encoding is supposed to be
emacs-mule (and I seem to remember that the BABYL file is supposed to
contain an annotation at the very beginning saying it's using
emacs-mule, if so).
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-17 19:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-14 18:14 Rmail and the raw-text coding system Mark Lillibridge
2011-01-14 21:00 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-01-15 0:06 ` Mark Lillibridge
2011-01-15 2:55 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-01-16 22:11 ` Mark Lillibridge
2011-01-17 19:19 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2011-01-17 22:31 ` Mark Lillibridge
2011-01-18 2:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-01-19 5:16 ` Mark Lillibridge
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