Re: should mbox be opened in unibyte mode

[jsbien@mimuw.edu.pl (Janusz S. Bien)]

Shenghuo ZHU <zsh@cs.rochester.edu> writes:

>>>>>> "VV" == Vladimir Volovich <vvv@vvv.vsu.ru> writes:
[...]
VV> i thought a bit on this, and it seems that mbox MUST be opened in
VV> unibyte mode, otherwise the results will be broken.
[...]
>
>I think unibyte mode does not really matter how mbox is opened, but
>the coding-system does. Have you tried
>
>(setq nnmbox-file-coding-system 'binary)
>(setq nnmbox-active-file-coding-system 'binary)
>

You both are right.

`binary' is just an alias for `no-conversion'. Here's what the manual
says about it:

   In contrast, the coding system `no-conversion' specifies no
character code conversion at all--none for non-ASCII byte values and
none for end of line.  This is useful for reading or writing binary
files, tar files, and other files that must be examined verbatim.  It,
too, sets `enable-multibyte-characters' to `nil'.
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

>It might solve the problem.

I think it should.

Best regards

Janusz

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