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Jesper Harder <harder@ifa.au.dk> writes:

> Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:
>
>> Jesper Harder <harder@ifa.au.dk> writes:
>>
>>> Charset encoding is currently broken in quite a few places, viz.
>>>
>>> =B7 Forwarding.  `C-u N C-c C-f' for N=3D1,2,4 is broken if the CTE of
>>>   the forwarded message is 8bit.
>>>
>>> =B7 Digesting.  `S o p' and `S o m' is similarly broken if
>>>   `message-forward-as-mime' is nil.
>>
>> Did my C-c C-f rewrite cause this?
>
> N=3D1 appears to work in a Gnus from 2003-07-31, so it probably broke
> that.

Right.  Before the rewrite N=3D1 used `mime-to-mml' -- it doesn't now,
which explains why it's broken.

So the question is: how to forward/digest/etc correctly without
converting to mml?

I think `mime-to-mml' is the wrong thing for most purposes for a
variety of reasons:

1. When I ask someone to forward a message, I usually want a
   _verbatim_ copy, not an interpretation by Gnus.

2. `mime-to-mml' assumes that the message is actually valid MIME.

3. It's broken for pgp/mime.

The last problem could probably be fixed by some special-casing.  But
the other two remain.