From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/30675 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Vladimir Volovich Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: should mbox be opened in unibyte mode Date: 05 May 2000 00:27:27 +0400 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <2nn1m6js5u.fsf@tiger.jia.vnet> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035167177 9703 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 02:26:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 02:26:17 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from lisa.math.uh.edu (lisa.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.49]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7FE7D051E for ; Thu, 4 May 2000 16:35:21 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by lisa.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id PAB17776; Thu, 4 May 2000 15:35:20 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Thu, 04 May 2000 15:34:44 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from mailhost.sclp.com (postfix@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA00336 for ; Thu, 4 May 2000 15:34:33 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from relay2.vsu.ru (mail.vsu.ru [62.76.169.17]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2405D051E for ; Thu, 4 May 2000 16:33:28 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: by relay2.vsu.ru (Postfix, from userid 5) id D05531924; Fri, 5 May 2000 00:33:25 +0400 (MSD) Original-Received: (from vvv@localhost) by vvv.vsu.ru (8.9.3/8.9.3) id AAA02403; Fri, 5 May 2000 00:27:27 +0400 X-Authentication-Warning: vvv.vsu.ru: vvv set sender to vvv@vvv.vsu.ru using -f Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Shenghuo ZHU's message of "04 May 2000 10:39:41 -0400" Original-Lines: 17 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0803 (Gnus v5.8.3) Emacs/20.4 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:30675 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:30675 "ZSH" == Shenghuo ZHU writes: ZSH> Multibyte is intentionally enabled in the mbox buffer. I don't ZSH> know the reason. i thought a bit on this, and it seems that mbox MUST be opened in unibyte mode, otherwise the results will be broken. mbox may contain arbitrary 8-bit data (coming from 8-bit CTT mime parts e.g. in utf-8). these 8-bit char sequences must not be interpreted by mule as multibyte chars because this is plain wrong: these sequences come from random standard registered charsets which have nothing to do with internal mule encoding. so, the mbox should be treated as a raw (uni)byte sequence, but not as something that has relation to internal mule encoding. Best regards, -- Vladimir.