Re: For lack of content...

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

Michael Welsh Duggan <md5i@cs.cmu.edu> writes:

> There are some posts which I read which contain characters in
> non-default coding-systems, which don't include a proper Content-Type
> header.  As a result, these messages end up in my buffer as the raw
> bytes of the coding method.  There are a couple of possible solutions
> that I can think of:
> 
> 1) A decoding alist of some sort, such as an alist of regexps
>    (matching a newsgroup name) to a list of coding-systems.  If the
>    visited newsgroup matches that regexp, then it should try to decode
>    the body using the mehods in the associated list,m in order.

Or group/topic params.  I've now added this.

> 2) A washing method, for which the user can supply a coding-system
>    with which to decode the article.

And this.

>    I actually wrote a prototype of such myself, but ran into the
>    problem that decode-coding-region trashes text-properties.

Hm.  It does seem that that function trashes text props.  Why?

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