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

> > And the XEmacs and Emacs MULEs are subtly and not-so-subtly
> > different, in that the XEmacs stuff works and the Emacs stuff
> > doesn't.  (Well.)
> 
> Can you be more specific on what doesn't "work"?

I just can't seem to get a handle on how things work.  If I eval
`(rfc2047-decode-string "=?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCTVUybBsoQik=?=")' with
point in a unibyte buffer, then I get garbage, even if I don't intend
to insert the string.  If I'm in a multibyte buffer, things work.  So
it seems that if you want to have multibyte chars one place, you
almost have to force all buffers to be multibyte, just to make sure.
(Which is what those `set-buffer-multibyte' things that are littered
over Gnus now is all about.)

These things just *work* under XEmacs without having to think about
them. 

> Hmm...  The prereaders version that Alan Shutko mentioned is still at:
> etlport.etl.go.jp:/pub/mule/.notready/elisp.xtar.gz

Thanks; I'll have a look at it.

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  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen