Re: [Bug: 21.5-b29] gnus can't send in 21.5.29 but in 21.4.22

[Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc>]

On Wed, Sep 21 2011, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

> Uwe Brauer writes:
>
>  > This is bizzare: I have install a no-gnus version which I
>  > use either with 21.4.22 Or 21.5.29.
>  > 
>  > I wanted to send a message with 2 PDF attachments. It worked
>  > fine in 21.4.22 but in 21.5.29 I obtained an error which I
>  > attach. Since it works in 21.4.22 I hesitate to send a bug
>  > report to the gnus list.
>
> Unfortunately, this isn't bizarre at all.  Both XEmacs 21.5 and Gnus
> use private space character sets internally for various purposes, and
> you contribute to that by using X-symbol, most likely.  There are only
> about 10 of them so it's a scarce resource.
>
> Please show us the output of M-x list-character-sets so we can see
> where the resource drain is coming from.
>
> Aidan may be able to help you with XEmacs's use since he implemented
> the JIT Unicode charset stuff, but IIRC he hard-coded it so there's
> probably nothing you can do by customizing a variable---it will need
> code changes.  It's more likely that a workaround can be found in Gnus
> IMO, but since XEmacs is more a platform than an application, IMHO it
> should be reserving private charsets for applications written in Emacs
> Lisp.  So I wouldn't be surprised if the Gnus folks take the position
> that this is an XEmacs 21.5 limitation, and put low priority on
> addressing it.

This problem came up before:
<http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/68154>.

There you may find a possible solution[1] or a workaround[2] there.  I
don't know why[1] hasn't been implemented.

,----[ http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/68154/focus=68185 ]
| Gnus should bind `coding-system-for-read' then to the value of
| `mm-binary-coding-system' that defaults to `binary'.  However,
| it seems to have been set to nil or `undecided':
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,----[ http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/68154/focus=68189 ]
| Cool, thanks!, this definitely helped me track down a work-around.
| I don't know what is actually causing the problem (It seems unique
| to me), but by adding the .pdf extension to the
| file-coding-system-alist for binary, it will successfully send files
| that were previously failing.
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