Re: enable-multibyte-characters error with recent CVS

[Didier Verna <didier@xemacs.org>]

ShengHuo ZHU <zsh@cs.rochester.edu> wrote:

> Mike Pullen <mpullen@midwest.net> writes:
> 
> > I cannot send mail with recent CVS.  When I send the message I get the
> > following backtrace.  I am using an Xemacs without mule.
> > 
> > Any ideas?
> > 
> > Signaling: (void-variable enable-multibyte-characters)
> >   message-send-mail(nil)
> >   message-send-via-mail(nil)
> >   message-send(nil)
> >   message-send-and-exit(nil)
> >   call-interactively(message-send-and-exit)
> > 
> > Following is the output from gnus-bug:
> > 
> > Oort Gnus v0.01
> > XEmacs 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" [Lucid] (i386-redhat-linux) of Thu Aug 24 2000 on porky.devel.redhat.com
> > 200 Leafnode NNTP Daemon, version 1.9.17 running at localhost.
> 
> I've possibly fixed the bug. Please check out the CVS and try again.

I'm not sure if this is related, but I don't understand this (changelog
entry):

|	* qp.el (quoted-printable-encode-region): Don't check multibyte in
|	XEmacs.

        This looks wrong to me. Isn't that check supposed to be useful, even
for XEmacs ? Also, shouldn't this function use mm-find-charset-region instead
of find-charset region ? The former one already have an
`enable-multibyte-characters' protection.


        The latest CVS is now broken for *me* under XEmacs. If I send a
message with, say, iso-8859-1 characters, the message is sent in
quoted-printable, but the encoding appears to be wrong and when I display the
message, I see qp escape sequences everywhere.

This is a test (you'll probably see qp escapes sequences here):

éèê
==========



        AFAICR, Gnus used to prefer iso-8859-1/8bit for mails in such a
situation before. Isn't there rather a problem with the default value of
`mm-body-charset-encoding-alist' ?

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