Re: Get \201 when I edit mail

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

Hallvard B Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no> writes:

> You mean you _haven't_ bitched that MULE makes it hard to work with
> files that have explicit character set information??

Not a lot; no.  :-)  The Mule stuff is sometimes so complex that once
you've identified where things go wrong, you've also added things to
work around the weirdness, and then you can't reproduce the bug any
more.  Most of the problems are nigh-impossible to reproduce outside
of the particular situation you're in.

I remember, for instance, when doing an `insert-buffer-substring' from
the " *server...*" buffer to the " *nntpd*" buffer and there was an
iso-8859-1 character in the former buffer, then the latter buffer
would end up with the original text, plus "\n\n random-character" at
the end of the buffer.  (This was the cause of the "Gnus hangs forever
when entering some groups" bug that plagued us for a month or so.)  I
was completely, totally unable to reproduce it outside of Gnus, and it
was completely reproducible inside Gnus.  RMS, Handa (I think) and I
weren't able to fix it, so I worked around it.  *shrug*

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