Re: Problem saving attachment with latest CVS HEAD Gnus

[Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org>]

>>>>> In <m34pst303h.fsf.nfl._-nfl---656d6163732e676e75732e67656e6572616c_---.00@tuxie.homelinux.net>
>>>>>	Nelson Ferreira wrote:

> Hi all,

> I am using SXEmacs 22.1.6 patch 97, which as some may know is a
> descendent of XEmacs 21.4.

Hi,

I tested it with XEmacs 21.4.19 and 21,5-b27 that have been
built from the recent CVS.  I found no problem with saving of
ppt attachments so far.

> I noticed problems saving an attachment of mime type
> application/vnd.ms-powerpoint encoded in base64

> I tracked it down to mm-insert-part calling mm-string-to-multibyte.
> Previously it was calling mm-string-as-multibyte and when I changed it
> back, it now works again.

> I tracked the changed to revision 7.47 of lisp/mm-decode.el

Does SXEmacs distinguish multibyte string and unibyte string as
Emacs does?  Though I don't think so.  As far as I understand,
there is no difference between `mm-string-as-multibyte' and
`mm-string-to-multibyte' in XEmacs except that the later takes
more time than the former.

> I am not sure what the right fix is in this case, but it seems odd
> that a mime type that could be binary is being attempted to be
> interpreted as multibyte.

> Any thoughts ?

> Best regards,

>      Nelson

> I can send a sample of the message I got the problem, but since it is
> 1.4M gziped I am refraining from doing so to all.

Please send it to me.  If there's still no problem with it and
XEmacs, I will try installing SXEmacs.

Regards,